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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant (1946 -)
...all because of Linda and Helle who really got me started. the furniture was sleeoing in the basement since we've been living in Istanbul - time to get it out. Next thing I have to do is to repaint the house. Thank you Linda and Helle for giving me the kick start!!!
Adelaide's Rundle Mall is still being renovated although most of the big stuff is done. These are temporary lights doing duty in the western end of the mall, beside King William Street. That's the Beehive Corner building in the background.
Czarna Białostoka forestry railway preservation scheme.
The preservation scheme did get over the road, and into the forest, later in 2005, but the future is now very much in doubt, with no services in recent years. (Last operation: 2009).
Some of my favorite re-ment pieces on the tv stand I made. The TV stand is a replica of the same one we're using at home. ^__^
London is a city located in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city has a population of 366,151 according to the 2011 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the non-navigable Thames River, approximately halfway between Toronto, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. The City of London is a separated municipality, politically separate from Middlesex County, though it remains the county seat.
London and the Thames were named in 1793 by Lord Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital of Upper Canada. The first European settlement was between 1801 and 1804 by Peter Hagerman. The village was founded in 1826 and incorporated in 1855. Since then, London has grown to be the largest Southwestern Ontario municipality and Canada's 11th largest municipality, having annexed many of the smaller communities that surrounded it.
London is a regional centre of health care and education, being home to the University of Western Ontario, Fanshawe College, and several hospitals. The city hosts a number of musical and artistic exhibits and festivals, which contribute to its tourism industry, but its economic activity is centred on education, medical research, insurance, and information technology. London's university and hospitals are among its top ten employers. London lies at the junction of Highway 401 and 402, connecting it to Toronto, Windsor, and Sarnia. It also has an international airport, train and bus station.
London's economy is dominated by medical research, insurance, manufacturing, and information technology. Much of the life sciences and biotechnology-related research is conducted or supported by the University of Western Ontario, which adds about C$1.5 billion to the London economy annually.
The headquarters of the Canadian division of 3M are located in London. The London Life Insurance Company was founded there, as was Imperial Oil (in 1880) and both the Labatt and Carling breweries. The Libro Financial Group was founded in London 1951 and is the second largest credit union in Ontario. Canada Trust was also founded in London in 1864. The TD-Canada Trust tower is still one of the tallest buildings in London, and has been home to two nesting peregrine falcons for more than a decade.
General Dynamics Land Systems builds armoured personnel carriers in the city. There are 2,000 workers at GDLS Canada. A $223 million expansion project in 1984 temporarily made Kellogg's Canada's 106,000 m2 (1,140,000 sq ft) London plant one of the most technologically advanced manufacturing facilities in the Kellogg Company. In late 2013, Kellogg's announced the closure of this plant by end of 2014, resulting in 500 jobs lost (production to move to Belleville and Michigan plants).
A portion of the city's population work in factories outside of the city limits, including the General Motors automotive plant CAMI, and a Toyota plant in Woodstock.
The city is home to many festivals, funded by the London Arts Council, including Sunfest, the Home County Folk Festival, the London Fringe Theatre Festival, the Expressions in Chalk Street Painting Festival, Rock the Park, Western Fair, the London Ontario Live Arts Festival (LOLA) and The International Food Festival. The London Rib-Fest, where barbecue ribs are cooked and served, is the second largest barbecue rib festival in North America. Pride London Festival is the 11th largest Pride festival in Ontario. Sunfest, a World music festival, is the second biggest in Canada after Caribana in Toronto, and is among the top 100 summer destinations in North America.
Eldon House is the former residence of the prominent Harris Family and oldest surviving such building in London. The entire property was donated to the city of London in 1959 and is now a heritage site. An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected by the province to commemorate The Eldon House's role in Ontario's heritage. The Banting House National Historic Site of Canada is the house where Sir Frederick Banting thought of the idea that led to the discovery of insulin. Banting lived and practiced in London for ten months, from July 1920 to May 1921. London is also the site of the Flame of Hope, which is intended to burn until a cure for diabetes is discovered.
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This was our only campsite memorial day weekend. It was too rainy to continue our second and third days..
i thought chase jarvis was right out to lunch when he spoke about overexposing photos for the sake of experimenting.
after debussing from the chinook, i took a few accidental snaps and this came out.
suffice it to say, im now a believer in temporarily overexposing shots.
August 2014 marks the 40th anniversary of the construction of the CN Tower’s “working platform”.
For those who saw and experienced the construction of the tower, this working platform was one of the iconic fixtures of the tower from August 1974 through to August 1975 when it was finally dismantled and lowered to the ground. However, with it being covered over with safety nets and without any “public media relations” to explain what was going on with the tower’s construction, most Torontonians were perplexed or knowingly confused about what this “working platform” was used for. For myself, I always felt that it hid a portion of the tower which was actively under construction and would one day emerge from its cocoon to form a key aspect of the SkyPod. All of this, of course, was incorrect, and hence why this collage and explanation was created.
The “working platform” (as we will generally call it) had multiple purposes to the engineers of the CN Tower:
1) First and foremost, it would be used as a cradle to hold the 12 steel brackets which were to be hoisted from the ground level up to the 1120ft level of the tower.
2) Second, it contained the concrete wooden forms which encased the 12 steel brackets. The forms were mainly built on the ground and hoisted up to the 1120ft level along with the 12 steel brackets.
3) Third, once the temporary wooden floor of the working platform was completed in September 1974, it would be used as a base to pour the concrete floor of the outdoor observation level.
4) And fourth, after the concrete for the floor and brackets were poured, the working platform would be lowered 50ft to aid as a true “working platform” for construction people to access and work on the underside of the outdoor observation level (the “communication” levels 1 and 2, where the inflated, circular white radome can presently be seem).
As shown in a prior construction collage, the 12 brackets were raised from the ground level up to the 1120ft level between August 6 and 11 1974. The brackets were then connected to the tower, and leveled, using “dvidags” between August 17 and 30.
Thereafter, during August, the sections were connected together by the steelworkers via trusses (as seen in the upper left image of this collage). Long wood joists, then plywood, was laid down across the trusses to form the floor of the working platform.
Concrete was then poured into the wooden forms, and around the 12 huge steel beams, within and under the working platform (hidden behind the safety nets) to form the 12 triangle brackets seen today from below the SkyPod. Additional wooden forms were also installed to allow the creation of the walls of the poured-concrete “service tunnel” of level 1, ending on September 27. As a small historical note, the one & only person to die on the job was John Austin who was killed by a flying piece of plywood on the ground on October 2 during an unusually windy night.
The concrete floor of the outdoor observation level was poured in pie-shaped wedges throughout October 1974, using the working platform as the horizontal forms for the concrete pours. This can be seen in the lower-left image of the collage.
As an aspect of the tower’s construction that may have been overlooked by most or all Torontonians, the working platform was dislodged from its poured concrete (after a week of hitting the forms with sledge hammers!) and lowered 50ft where it remained until August 1975 (as shown in the lower right image of the collage). This important phase of the tower’s construction was not well documented in the media nor newspapers of the day so it was easily overlooked in the history books. The lowering occurred between Nov 2 and 8 1974. The platform was first lowered 20ft where it was used to pour the floor of level 1 then lowered another 30ft to clear the brackets (which were 45ft vertical).
The lower right image of the collage is an excellent photo of all of the work explained above. In the lower portion of the image, the “working platform” was all temporary and would be dismantled in 1975. The upper portion of the image remains as part of the SkyPod today. The floor is where the outdoor observation level is today. Under the floor are levels 1 and 2 where the communication dishes are presently shrouded in a white circular radome. The 12 concrete brackets were created by the wooden forms which remained within the working platform.
Once this critical and important phase of the tower was completed in November 1974, the “real work” could begin on erecting the steel framework of the SkyPod by CANRON.
Yup, this is what spring looks like in Ontario....temps of 20 & 21 on Sunday & Monday plummeted to -8 .....this is what I woke up to yesterday :)))))
But oh so pretty !!!
Some more fun with a present I was sent off my wishlist.
If you want to treat me to something too go to my sexy fun Amazon Wishlist.
A combo trail and forest shot, I love the light in this little scene near the Plover River. Fall is so great. Well, until stick season.
The SeaGull Restaurant & Gift Shop (less than 100 yards from Pemaquid Light), 3119 Bristol Rd, New Harbor, Maine
Like so many businesses during the "lockdown", the SeaGull Resturant was "Temporarily Closed".
And now it seems so much more than that.
Thank you, Xi Jinping
Go Ahead have assumed the long and winding 366 from Stagecoach, now operated from River Road.
The associated new electrics aren’t ready, so the recently displaced SE268-287 batch (plus SEN35) have been moved over to start the contract.
I never rode a few of these in their previous employment at Merton, SE278 here being one such example.
It’s seen arriving at the Redbridge Library stop in Ilford.
A solid diesel bash apart from the EH at the start. 19.6.23.
EH153 Aldgate-Canning Town 115
E214 Canning Town-Custom House 147
WVL359 Custom House-East Ham 304
WVL358 East Ham-Wanstead 101
10318 Wanstead-Redbridge 145
SE273 Redbridge-Ilford 366
10312 Ilford-Redbridge 145
SE287 Redbridge-Barking Park 366
SE271 Barking Park-Ilford 366
SE278 Ilford-Redbridge 366
DW209 Redbridge-Wanstead 66
37792 Wanstead-Leytonstone W13
37587 Leytonstone-Leyton W14
15098 Leyton-Stratford 97
[Best viewed large. Really. ;-)]
I think I've lost all control. Now the weird reflected light isn't simply making an appearance, it is taking over my photos! I like how the brick wall on the left sort of looms through the light as though through mist.
Light Wall No. 2
A detail portion of a larger sculpture from the International Sand Sculpting Championship in Virginia Beach. Impressive artists for sure.
Thanks for looking!
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"I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
~Mitch Hedberg