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In 1979, I was working as a staff representative for BRAC's Allied Services Division in Chicago. The President (General Chairman) of the ASD was Tom Fitzgibbon, who also held the dual office of International Vice President of the union. Tom is pictured at center in the Chicago Tribune photo of strikers at LaSalle Street Station. He had assigned me to assist with the Rock Island Strike. Strike Coordinator John J. Witmeyer, in turn, had assigned me to be "third trick" strike coordinator, which consisted of sitting alone all night in strike headquarters, getting reports from strike captains and others in the field.
I got a frantic call one night from a trainmaster on the C&NW, asking if any of our people had set fire to one of their bridges! Of course, I expressed outrage at the very idea, and said that none of "our people" would ever think of doing such a thing! (I had been warned that the FBI was probably tapping the phone line, and one of my resources was a list of public telephone locations and numbers to be used in case anything "sensitive" had to be discussed.) The North-Western trainmaster just said, yeah, yeah, cut the b.s., and that he didn't give a damn how many Rock Island bridges we burned, just call him first and make sure it wasn't one of theirs!
I got another frantic call from a strike captain, I can't remember where now, maybe Blue Island, there was a lot of stuff going on around there, saying that a freight train operated by management employees had been leaving the yard, and someone on the picket line had pulled a pin in the middle of the consist causing a separation, and had been arrested. I asked him to please tell me it was not one of "our" people who had done such a dumb thing. Turned out it was an engineer, from either the UTU or BLE. I told our strike captain to please make sure all our people understood that under absolutely no circumstances were they to do anything like that. Delaying a train 30 minutes or an hour was sure as hell not worth going to jail for! Not to mention losing your job.
The Sun-Times article, "Workers to return at Rock Island," quotes me. The difference between "a" strike coordinator and "the" Strike Coordinator is exactly the same as between a "trick" chief dispatcher and "the" Chief Dispatcher. I was 25 years old at that time.
Strike headquarters was in the BRAC C&NW System Board office on the 11th floor of an office building on South Wells Street (210 S. Wells, I think).
The final few days of the strike had been so uneventful, so quiet, that absolutely nothing was happening at night. I had taken a cot, pillow, and blanket up to the office with me, and, unfortunately, had placed the phone on the floor next to me while I slept.
We had had exceptionally good "press control" throughout the strike, the best any of the "old heads" could remember. No one had "talked out of school" or said anything outside of the official union press releases. But, on the last night, when rumors started leaking from management that a settlement was imminent, around 5 or 6 a.m. the phone started ringing. Different media outlets, wanting statements. I never woke up. The first few times, I'd just pick up the phone and mutter something about a press release being issued at 9 a.m., and hang up the phone.
Finally, though, one of them succeeded in irritating me enough that, even though still "asleep," I blurted out the information contained in the article, then added, "now go away and leave me the hell alone." And went back to "sound" sleep.
Around 9 a.m., THE Strike Coordinator, J. J. Witmeyer, and another BRAC officer, Jack Fletcher, came in and, well, had fun pranking me. They were deadly serious, and said that a terrible breach of protocol had occurred, and that International President Fred Kroll was standing by to talk to me. They said my union career was probably over. They got him on the line, and went through a planned script, "Yes, sir, yes, sir, we have told him, he's standing here now, yes, I see..." then held the phone out to me and said, "He wants to talk to you." I shook my head and held up my hands, as if to say, "No," but Witmeyer said, "Mike, he's the International President, you can't refuse his call..."
So I took the phone, and couldn't get any words to come out. When I did manage a semi-whispered "hello," my voice cracked. They couldn't stand it anymore. All of them busted out laughing until they cried. Fred Kroll said, what's the matter, kid, are those old farts giving you a hard time?" I then realized I had been pranked.
Fred said, "Kid, you've got balls, I like that. I want you to tell Tom I said to send you to Rockville for a few weeks so we can all get to know you and you can see the operation at the Grand Lodge."
Fred Kroll died a few months later from leukemia, before I could make that trip.
Five years later, however, in June 1984, Amtrak was given its own System Division within the union, and I succeeded my old boss Fitzgibbon as its first General Chairman.
A Rock soran is a dance performed in many elementary schools.
Nikon D610 / SIGMA 70-200mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM
Taken in Tokyo.
Another shot of the spider 2 back in my stream. My reverse lens gives me a working distance of 10cm (no nearer nor further) and at f/22.0 I get a DOF of about 4mm. This is roughly the tightest crop I can get before things look too grainy. Here, I could've made the shutter speed much lower and brought down the ISO, but I was so eager to get a shot before it scarpered off on me =P. Guess I'll be more patient in future as I get more shots under my belt.
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The United States Congress designated the Hells Canyon Wilderness in 1975 and it now has a total of 217,927 acres. Idaho contains approximately 83,811 acres. Oregon contains approximately 134,116 acres. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.
Hells Canyon Wilderness is a subset of the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (HCNRA), which straddles the border of northeastern Oregon and western Idaho. Split into two distinct halves by the Wild & Scenic Snake River, approximately one-third of HCNRA is designated Wilderness. A small portion of the Wilderness in Oregon is managed by the BLM.
The Idaho side of the Wilderness is smaller than the Oregon side and encompasses the Seven Devils mountain range. The Wilderness stretches South from Pittsburg Landing for approximately 31 miles along the Snake River.
On the Oregon side, the higher elevation areas are characteristic of rocky slopes and grasslands laced with 'stringer canyons' and groves composed of Douglas fir and ponderosa pine. The lower elevations are dominated by grassland benches with steep canyons and ravines dissecting the isolated Oregon-side. Two National trails are found at various elevations: Western Rim/Summit Ridge Recreation Trail at the upper elevation, and Nez Perce Historic Trail near the Snake River. Species of interest are Rocky Mountain Elk, bighorn sheep, mule deer, and chukar.
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Fossiliferous dolostone ("dolomite") from the Silurian of the American Midwest.
Sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of loose sediments. Loose sediments become hard rocks by the processes of deposition, burial, compaction, dewatering, and cementation.
There are three categories of sedimentary rocks:
1) Siliciclastic sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments produced by weathering & erosion of any previously existing rocks.
2) Biogenic sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments that were once-living organisms (plants, animals, micro-organisms).
3) Chemical sedimentary rocks form by the solidification of sediments formed by inorganic chemical reactions. Most sedimentary rocks have a clastic texture, but some are crystalline.
Dolostone (formerly “dolomite”) is a chemical sedimentary rock composed of the mineral dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2 - calcium magnesium carbonate). Dolostone can be jokingly described as the “ultimate non-descript rock”. It often looks like driveway gravel. Well, there’s a reason for this - a lot of driveway gravel is dolostone (at least around where I live).
Most dolostones are grayish, microcrystalline-textured, and have vuggy porosity. Vugs are irregularly-sized & irregularly-shaped cavities. Some dolostones are fossiliferous. Fossiliferous dolostones usually have poorly-preserved fossil “ghosts” (see above photo). Rarely, fine-grained dolostones have soft-bodied fossil preservation.
Crystalline-textured dolostones appear secondary in origin. They are typically interpreted as chemically-altered fossiliferous limestones. Some dolostones look primary, but how they formed is not entirely clear. Chemically, all that's needed to form dolostone is the addition of magnesium (Mg) to limestone. The details of this chemical change are not fully understood. A few localities on Earth do have dolomite or protodolomite forming now, but the detailed story of the dolomite-forming process is still a significant unsolved problem in sedimentary geology - “the dolomite problem”.
The Silurian-aged dolostone shown above has vuggy porosity and fossil "ghosts". The somewhat rounded, empty structure on the right side is an external mold of a fossil brachiopod.
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Giant Rock is a large freestanding boulder in the Mojave Desert directly adjacent to Landers, California, that covers 5,800 square feet of ground and is seven stories high. Giant Rock is purported to be the largest freestanding boulder in the world.
Native Americans of the Joshua Tree, California, area consider it to be sacred. A single large room, which was subsequently filled in, was dug beneath the rock and resided in by a prospector named Frank Critzer during the 1930s and early 1940s. Critzer perished in a self-detonated dynamite explosion in this room on July 24, 1942, while being investigated by local police. In the 1950s it was a gathering point for UFO believers. It is located on land which was at that time leased by George Van Tassel, a friend of Critzer's, a purported flying-saucer contactee and organizer of UFO conventions. Van Tassel also built the nearby Integratron and a small airport in the vicinity, which he operated from 1947 to 1975. Shortly after the turn of the 21st century, Giant Rock fractured in two, revealing an interior of white granite.
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Athearn Genesis units weathered and detailed by my friend Rob Askew. Rob's models photographed by me.
Hyaloclastite rock is made of cemented volcanic ash and is formed in submarine or subglacial eruptions. Hyaloclastite ridges are particularly prominent in Iceland, formed under glaciers during the last ice age, but are also found in British Columbia and more places (see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyaloclastite)
Polished slab of agate rock - a gift from my brother. I held them up in front of the sun then took my fingers out. Oct. 2013.
..back to the Gunflint.
a big rock marks the place where you can stop and view the panramic scene of the lower country,
the view: www.flickr.com/photos/u4eah/4831863/in/set-124363/
the rock is about 12 feet tall, at least 6 feet wide and over 5 feet thick.
while our group was there, another couple pulled up on one sled, and proceeded to take out a picnic of store-bought sushi-rolls, crackers, cheese and a bottle of wine..
we toasted the day
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Galeria do Rock é um centro de compras localizado na cidade de São Paulo. Foi fundada em 1963, com o nome de Shopping Center Grandes Galerias. Localizada entre a Rua 24 de Maio e o Largo do Paysandu, possui 450 estabelecimentos comerciais, com predominância para o comércio de produtos relacionados ao rock e outros estilos musicais. Bruce Dickinson (vocalista do Iron Maiden), Kurt Cobain (ex-vocalista do Nirvana), Tarja Turunen (ex-vocalista do Nightwish) e bandas como Dream Theater, Paradise Lost e Sepultura, já visitaram o local.
A Galeria do Rock possui mais de 400 espaços comerciais, mais de 300 são lojas, sendo dividida em Hip-Hop no Subsolo, Skate e produtos mais populares no térreo, Rock nos Primeiro, Segundo e Terceiro Andares e Silk Screen e estamparias em geral nos terceiro e quarto andares.
Localização
A galeria do Rock fica próxima à estação de metrô República, no número 62 da rua 24 de maio.
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Foto selecionada para o Guia "1001 Maneiras bacanas de conhecer o Brasil", da Editora Abril:
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