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Thanks a lot to syngola for original file. Even with this file it took me very long to understand and to manage it.
This is the color scheme I used for my first attempt, but I realized that it's impossible to make it with this scheme so I tried it again with proper coloring but it looks little bit boring...
Gladwell Road, Urambo
Where my folks were living when my sister Christine was born in 1952.
My dad was working on what was known as The Groundnuts Scheme-a big post war sheme by the British Government to boost the world's protein an vegetable oil supply by planting huge areas of Tanganyika (Tanzania now) with groundnuts.
Loy's Station, Maryland
Sadly, the original bridge, built in 1848, was destroyed by arson in 1991, when a pickup truck was set on fire while in the bridge as part of an insurance fraud scheme. The local community successfully raised money to rebuild the bridge, using some of the original hardware, rafters and braces from the old bridge. That seems like quite a huge undertaking, and I congratulate them. The new bridge has been open since 1994.
My sister informed of the sad news today of the death of Jean "Slim" Young in a care home in Australia . She was like an honorary or surrogate Aunt to us growing up in Africa. Pictured here with the dark hair. She had been a Wren at Bletchley Park when not even yet 20 and ended up in Africa first working on the Groundnut scheme in Tanganyika where she met my parents.
She was a remarkable and determined woman and a great craftsperson. I had a lovely tooled belt she had made for years.
I tried to encourage her to write down her memoirs but she thought no one would be interested. I would have been. An author once contacted me as she was writing a novel set in Tanganyika at the time and wanted to know about the Groundnuts scheme so I put her in touch with Jean so she could flesh out the arduous life and conditions .Jean was very internet savvy in her old age and so they had a bit of back and forth. When the book came out Jean was appalled as it made it seem like they swanned around in some kind of country club all day. .
Anyway she was quite something . Here to you Jean and to Alison Andy and Jasmin xx
Thirties interior color schemes. Red, Yellow, Green 1930 interior design.
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Listening in.
In 2012, Sir Peter Fahy, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, pledged to create a new Volunteer Police Cadet Scheme for young people in the region.
The scheme, developed by Sergeant Jane Butler and Youth Strategy Officer PC Andrew Marsden, is aimed at 13- 17 year-olds and provides a programme of weekly Cadet nights filled with activity, information and – hopefully – some fun.
The aims of the scheme include:
•Promoting and encouraging a practical interest in policing among young people,
•Providing training which will encourage positive leadership within communities which will include volunteering opportunities,
•Encouraging a spirit of adventure and developing qualities of leadership and good citizenship. Cadets will be given the opportunity to obtain a Duke of Edinburgh Award, First Aid qualification etc.
Cadets units will be based in areas where there is currently little to occupy local youngsters.
Volunteers will have to apply, stating their reasons for wanting to be part of the scheme and will be encouraged to remain with the scheme for as long as they can. On reaching the end of their time as a cadet, they will be given with advice on careers and business, help with CVs and information about any opportunities to remain with the Force.
The first cadet scheme has been developed with the support of the Co-op Academy, Blackley.
Cadets are currently completing a "probationary" period and have so far experienced drill, physical exercise classes and advice on subjects such as the effective and safe use of social media.
Further items on the curriculum are lessons on the law, public order awareness, phonetics and radio use, problem solving … and more drill!
A uniform will be worn but only issued on completion of a successful probationary period.
The scheme's team leaders are also volunteers and include schools based officers, PCSO's, special constables and university students, all contributing their own time to run each cadet night.
To build number of successful schemes across the region we are looking for help. Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer team leader and can demonstrate a commitment and desire to "change hearts and minds" can contact Sergeant Jane Butler at volunteerpolicecadets@gmp.police.uk.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken in the third full week of November 2014.
There's a big drop-off in activity on this site now. Continued removal of equipment, back to base or other construction sites.
The last 'crawler crane' is being stripped down.
Heavy-duty vehicular access to the far bank is restricted by the width and load-bearing capacity of the temporary bridge at Coburg, meaning that the crane has to propel itself out and across the river to a waiting low-loader.
The boom arm of the 50-ton CCH3000 Crawler Crane is broken down into sections, and shipped out by truck.
A Liebherr LTM 1050/1 All Terrain Mobile Crane is used for the job.
It's telescopic boom, in working mode, extends to 40 m.
At a near-vertical angle of 83º it could lift 7.4 ton.
In secured compacted mode (10.5 m height), it could lift 50+ ton.
Overall length: 8.7 m, - overall width: 2.5 m.
This following montage features four BigBoy toys -- a veritable gathering of Green Mean Machines.
Violet and brown are a very 70s thing. Until the last couple of years, I wouldn't have thought of pairing them. Never put the two colors together the first time around.
Ann Taylor merino sweater
Vintage Farrah cords
Miguel Angel loafers
Twisted copper earrings
All thrifted, remixed
The Land Development Scheme of the Fitzroy Basin. A portion of the first burn viewed from the Eastern side.
December 1962.
Item: 436408
Neg: C2-4333
And my poor neglected Gamma Action Man (I refer to his brothers as Alpha and Beta so) finally got some clothes to suit his look I think. He’s wearing a vintage home made shirt I got with one of my Allans, a Fashion Fever Kurt jacket, Fashionista jeans and shoes. I think he’s looking a bit snappier now lol.
X342 approaches Byron with almost all the major paint schemes on CN locos currently, and one throwback trailing.
Danger Will Robinson - just spotted a 'busload of nuns' (probably jehovahs most likely) scheming and planning how to take over your town's lower socio-economic area for their version of religion outside the local public school. Lock your doors - close your gates.
Herman Miller Ethospace refurbished by EthoSource. EthoSource can customize the cubicle to exactly your liking!
Mississippi State University cheerleaders fall from the sky as they break up a pyramid during the football game against the University of Tennessee.
6.5 million women in Morocco work in rural food production, and 1.8 million in Tunisia; more than half of these women are informal workers without a contract, and therefore without access to social protection, healthcare or formal structures that would allow them to benefit from governmental support in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agricultural sector has been particularly affected by the pandemic due to the limitation of the movement of people and goods, the closure of usual markets and points of sale, and changes in consumer practices, including apprehension towards products whose production cannot be traced. This has further exacerbated many women’s risk of job loss, poverty and disease.
The FLOWER project will increase women workers’ awareness of their socio-economic rights, of the health risks of the pandemic, and of the opportunities available in terms of law, funds and functioning of the market, in order to achieve better working conditions, production processes, quality and hygiene of food products, distribution channels and access to local and national markets. It will also train young local coaches on mechanisms of funds access and business management, and enable women’s groups to become familiar with economic, commercial and financial approaches to crisis management.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the first week of June, 2017.
The day of my visit, a Bank Holiday Monday, saw a break in the weather -- and the arrival of rains coinciding with the annual Women's Marathon.
Still evidence of activity along this stretch of the riverbank, and especially around the Irish Rail bridge.
Since Summer 2016, this is where the heavy-duty engineering works have been taking place.
This is a section of the flood protection scheme that I have not covered in detail -- it's inconvenient for me to access, and others cover it much better.
Check out 'Turgidson'.
Standing on an access bridge, adjacent to the Bray Boxing Club (from whence sprang Katie Taylor, and others of illustrious note), looking back up the river, towards the town direction.
That was the site of the old Bray Golf Club -- hotly contested as a (potentially) poorly considered as a site for a shopping centre development complex, and still an area of ground that has to act as a flood plain in the event of tidal surges.
As well as raising a heightened flood protection wall, they've created an access ramp down to the riverside.
The area in the background, site of the old Bray Golf course, was both a works compound and vehicle route for the transportation of material to/from the other sectors along the River Dargle involved in construction works.
A new (public) access road has been built, linking Little Bray, cutting through Ravenswell (old Bray Golf Course), and coming out under a previously (under)used bridge adjacent to the old factories/warehouses complex on the northside of Bray Harbour.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the fourth week of June, 2017.
The levels of activity fluctuate along this stretch of the riverbank, and especially around the Irish Rail bridge, informed by the tides and priorities.
Since Summer 2016, this is where the heavy-duty engineering works have been taking place.
This is a section of the flood protection scheme that I have not covered in detail -- it's inconvenient for me to access, and others cover it much better.
The length of the Ravenswell Road is to be landscaped into a pedestrian 'experience', with plants, seating and viewing points created in the sea-wall.
I think this might link up with a new road and pathway being constructed around to Little Bray.
This access runs out of Ravenswell and opens at the Harbour Industrial Estate, Harbour Road on the north side of Bray Harbour.
Not sure that proposal was wholeheartedly welcomed, and not sure how 'open' the access will be on a regular basis.
In common with experiences of other sections along the Dargle riverside, there have been long-standing complaints of 'undesirable behaviour' (drink/drugs) hereabouts.
Will this facilitate or ameliorate the behaviour?
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The Irish Rail Bridge, Bray Harbour:
Phase 1 flood defence works to the Irish Rail bridge commenced in August 2016.
Phase 2 flood defence works will be completed during May to September 2017. This work is being undertaken directly by Irish Rail.
The work includes strengthening the integrity of the bridge by creating buttresses around the base of each pillar.
To do this they have to pile-drive sheets into the river bedrock.
The work is complicated by;
(a) the need not to damage or disturb in any way the actual bridge itself (Irish Rail train and DART carriages pass overhead on an hourly basis), (b) the confined spaces under the bridge, and (c) the twice-daily rising tides from Bray Harbour which spill upriver into the newly expanded basin.
Queensland Hydro are planning to construct a dam (rockwall with upstream concrete face) in this gorge on Cedar Creek, a minor tributary of Yabba Creek (seen in background). Elevation of site above Yabba Creek is 327m. This new dam will allow water pumped from Borumba Dam on Yabba Creek to be stored as an energy battery. The water will then flow back to Lake Borumba at peak demand times, especially at night generating electricity. The capacity of this project in 2GW electricity which is equivalent to the combined capacity of Tasmania's 31 hydroelectricity power stations.
In a pumped hydro scheme, surplus (of no market value) solar electricity is used to pump water into the top storage, which when required is used to generate high value electricity with the added benefit of stabilising the entire electricity grid.
The forest on the left/foreground is dry sclerophyll forest that has been repeatedly burnt, and has replaced the original rainforest that was inclusive of a diversity of spp including softwood (Araucaria) and red cedar. The terrain has in part protected the forest to right of gorge, and therefore contains a greater diversity of tree species. The background ridge is an utter mess of vine-covered slopes that is the result of severe fire, and dense lantana (darker green), with some regrowth areas that have survived the most recent fires.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken on the last full weekend of October 2014.
Throughout the days, it's a constant 2-way stream of Volvo trucks -- some bringing varying grades of hardcore down to the riverside to build up the rear of the steel wall - or removing previously laid temporary access shelf on the outside of the steel wall.
The guys are now actively rebuilding the riverbed itself: digging out the previous 'temporary' core material, and replacing with large, profiled boulders.
The intention being to (a) provide better habitat for fish stock, and (b) seek to slow the speed of river flow during periods of heavy rain and high river levels.
A neat job is being completed to landscape the ground in front of the apartments -- backfilling with stone and soil.
A protective guide-rail is being welded, in stages, to the top of the protruding steel wall, prior to capping with cement.
G-EZDN, Airbus A.319-111, easyJet, in the new scheme embellished with tulips and named Amsterdam arriving at London Southend Airport from Amsterdam. 07.04.15.
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No I haven't completely lost my marbles, this was a kind gift from my Diecast Fairy who thought I might appreciate its MG6 replicating metallic Burnt Orange colour scheme.
Made by Hot Wheels this overtly generic sports car was I believe made for McDonalds to be included into various Happy Meals. It also has a compartment in its baseplate for a battery and an ON/OFF switch so I'm assuming its meant to light up or something?
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the fourth week of July, 2016.
And we're back to the Rehills/Slang section -- between La Vallee and Rivervale.
Where previously this area was an organised structure of vast earth mounds, which ebbed and flowed with the removal of material, saw the import and removal of enormous mounds of stone material, and emerged as a relatively levelled piece of ground -- we saw the arrival of a fleet of 4-axle trucks bearing fresh mounds of stone. This continued for the best part of a week.
And what has been dumped, has to be sorted, and piled, and graded . . . and ultimately moved on to somewhere else!
In fairness to this contractor (Jons Construction) they recognise the need to control the working environment . . . and YES, that involves watering the access route to the disposal zone.
To this untrained eye, there's a lot of time and effort that goes in to moving, dropping, sorting, grading, stacking, gathering, loading, shifting, dumping, replacing . . . and repeating this exercise.
Obviously material has to be stored before/during/after it's needed along the various stretches of the protection works.
Could it be done more efficiently !!
At least they now use a bulldozer to gather+move material about. That's efficient.
And it's used nearby to create/grade the sloping mounds that are slowly rising.
17/09/2020. Thretford, United Kingdom. Home Secretary and The Defence Secretary visit Wretham Camp. Wretham Camp. Home Secretary Priti Patel and the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace visit Eastmere Village a British Army training Village on Wretham Camp in Thetford, where the British Army train Afghan interpreters. Afghan interpreters who supported British Armed Forces on the frontline in Helmand Province will be able to move to the UK as part of an expanded relocation scheme announced by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel. Picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street
Presentation of Options for River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme, as proposed by Bray UDC and the Office of Public Works.
'Public Information Day, in Royal Hotel, Bray, November 2006.
The following are a small selection of documented proposals for public consideration.
The project was born of a need to address the negative impact of high water levels and flooding of the River Dargle on local residents, businesses and commuters.
Major structural works include widening the channel downstream of Bray Bridge along the golf course just before the DART bridge
- installation of a culvert on the north side of Bray Bridge creating, in effect, an “extra arch” in the bridge to allow for a greater volume of water
- River Bank stabilisation works in areas from Bray Bridge upstream past the Peoples Park and bed widening and adaptation works in the Slang area.
Participants in the Donegal Sports Partnership's Community Coaching Programme in the proficiency in paddle sport at the Gartan Outdoor Training and Education Centre
Swiss Hornets J-5011 and J-5022 pull "g" as they clear the Axalp range, condensation forming on the wings
Tel Aviv May 2017
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River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the fourth week of June, 2017.
The levels of activity fluctuate along this stretch of the riverbank, and especially around the Irish Rail bridge, informed by the tides and priorities.
Since Summer 2016, this is where the heavy-duty engineering works have been taking place.
This is a section of the flood protection scheme that I have not covered in detail -- it's inconvenient for me to access, and others cover it much better.
Standing on an access bridge, adjacent to the Bray Boxing Club (from whence sprang Katie Taylor, and others of illustrious note), looking back up the river, towards the town direction.
In the foreground is the Railway bridge, and in the distance we can see some construction works taking place on the Ravenswell Road, temporarily closed due to on-going works.
That was the site of the old Bray Golf Club -- hotly contested as a (potentially) poorly considered site for a shopping centre development complex, and still an area of ground that has to act as a flood plain in the event of tidal surges.
As well as raising a heightened flood protection wall, they've created an access ramp down to the riverside.
The area in the background, site of the old Bray Golf course, was both a works compound and vehicle route for the transportation of material to/from the other sectors along the River Dargle involved in construction works.
The Irish Rail Bridge, Bray Harbour:
Phase 1 flood defence works to the Irish Rail bridge commenced in August 2016.
Phase 2 flood defence works will be completed during May to September 2017. This work is being undertaken directly by Irish Rail.
The work includes strengthening the integrity of the bridge by creating buttresses around the base of each pillar.
To do this they have to pile-drive sheets into the river bedrock.
The work is complicated by;
(a) the need not to damage or disturb in any way the actual bridge itself (Irish Rail train and DART carriages pass overhead on an hourly basis), (b) the confined spaces under the bridge, and (c) the twice-daily rising tides from Bray Harbour which spill upriver into the newly expanded basin.
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Bray Harbour / Irish Rail Bridge:
The harbour was constructed between the years of 1891 and 1895.
A railway bridge was first built here in 1853.
The following year saw the opening of a railway line between Dublin and Bray.
It was also known as the 'Harcourt Street Line'
Famed Irish engineer William Dargan, known affectionately as ‘the father of the Irish Railways’, was the man involved with bringing the rail to Bray, and in it's construction, and which moulded the town into a fashionable resort.
Dargan designed and built Ireland's first railway line from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire in 1833.
Mid-18th century plans proposed the building of a 12.5-mile (20 km) railway from Bray Daly, which opened on 10 July 1854 to initially terminate at Harcourt Road. (Harcourt Street Station was not built until 1859).
The building of the line was done by two railway companies: The Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway (DW&WR), who built the line from Dundrum to Bray and the Dublin, Dundrum and Rathfarnham Railway (DD&RR), who were to build the line from Harcourt Street to Dundrum.
The latter failed to do so, and the 'Dublin & Wicklow Railway' took over the line works.
Following the Beddy Report of 1957, CIÉ began to realise that in an effort to save money, all the non-profitable rural railway branch lines would have to close. The Harcourt Street line was one of these unprofitable railway lines and so the decision to close the line was ultimately reached.
In October 1958, CIÉ gave notice of the closure in the local papers.
The last train, CIÉ 2600 Class AEC railcar number 2652, left Harcourt Street at 4:25pm on 31 December 1958.
The route was preserved after closure, allowing for a potential future reopening. The route corridor remained mostly in-situ until the 2000s. The section between the Grand Canal crossing and the old Stillorgan station was chosen for use by the Luas light rail system whose Green Line opened in 2004. The line crosses Dundrum on the new William Dargan cable-stayed bridge.
An extension of the Luas to Cherrywood opened for passenger service on Saturday 16 October 2010, using most of the old railway alignment.
Bray Railway Station was renamed Bray Daly Railway Station in 1966 in honour of Edward Daly, one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.
The eastern platform features an interesting set of murals depicting the history of Ireland’s railways.
Scheme of finished block (Forest QAL).
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River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken in the first full week of November 2014.
There is a noticeable drop-off in the level of activity on this site now.
There's still some finishing touches to the river bed itself, cosmetic work along the riverbank sides, and a jig-saw pattern of large boulders placed in mid-stream.
The main (final) focus will be on completing the profiles to the sheet-steel wall, securing the structure with poured concrete, and then the completion with the pre-fabricated stone capping.
The majority of operatives who attended through the summer months have since moved on to other sites/tasks.
And we can see a slow repatriation of heavy-duty equipment back to base.
Having laid steel frames, back-braced for rigidity, they proceed to pour mixed cement into a suspended cradle which is swung across the river, allowing them to carefully measure out the cement fill through the sleeve -- so necessary when working in small, confined intricate spaces.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the first full week of August 2014, after the long Bank Holiday weekend.
Work is now on-going in this area of the The Slang/Dargle River, involving: -- Site preparation and mobilisation comprising sheetpile flood defence walls. The site preparation required the removal of mature trees and vegetation along the riverbank. Section-by-section, long lengths of steel sheet piling are aligned within a frame, and then driven partially into the bedrock by crane-suspended hydraulic hammers.
After a spell of spectacularly good weather, frequent and heavy squalls of rain swept the country. River levels were appreciably higher in the Dargle.