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Nicholas of Verdun (and workshop), Shrine of the Three Kings, c. 1181–1220, oak, gold, silver gilt, copper, enamel, jewels, 155 x 112 x 224 cm, Cologne Cathedral
This is a fantastic find, perhaps one of the finest I have ever made.
These three mortice chisels were found together in the same lot. The seller had brought them with him from Sweden. Two of them are marked B.O. Libergs FABR. AB and the third is marked Erik Anton Berg with the three tail logotype.
Why is this so great? Because B.O. Liberg was a small Swedish maker of top quality chisels in Rosenfors, very near Eskilstuna. Liberg operated from 1868 to 1921, until the company was bought by the larger local competitor Jernbolaget.
So this lot of three tells me that the chisels ought not have been made after 1921. And the tangs are stamped with "B.O. Libergs Fabriks Aktiebolag Rosenfors", the name the company took in the year 1896. This creates a timespan of 25 years for the production of these chisels.
That again creates a frame timespan for my rather more important quest to date the various Berg stamps.
These three chisels are fitted with identical user made handles and owner's name. They all share the same amount of rust and dirt, so I am very confident that they were purchased at the same time.
If I'm right about this, the variation of the Berg logotype stamped on this mortice chisel would at least partially coincide with these dates. It's only a lead, but it is a good one.
Now, going back to the mortice chisels themselves. In four years of rust hunting I have so far been able to by a set of three Berg mortice chisels. So these kind of chisels are very rare where I live.
By the look of it, both Liberg chisels haven't even been used. They certainly have not been sharpened once since leaving the factory. The Berg chisel must have been used as the handle has been split. It has also suffered from pitting at the edge, but should become perfectly good once I remove about a quarter of an inch in the damaged end of it.
The handles look like birch to me, which is sad, because it cracks easily. But I will try to soak the handles in linseed oil and see if they can be used.
The Three Winged Epidendrum (Epidendrum trialatum) is a small epiphytic orchid. El Toucant Lodge Environs, Costa Rica.
Toyville/American Waterfront/Waterfront Park
Tokyo DisneySea
April 2013
Although I have panoramic cameras I am a little fond of the iPhone panoramic - it’s interpretations of moving people and vehicles is quite fascinating, I will post some from Shibuya, Tokyo soon - truly bizarre.
This triptych - if that’s even the right way to describe it features three shots from Tokyo DisneySea:
Top: Toy Story Mania/American Waterfront
This was around 10.15 am - the park opened at 10.00am. By this time the stand-by queue for Toy Story Mania was 180 minutes. The people to the left of me were in the Fastpass line to collect Fastpasses - that was already showing at near 7pm.
Middle:
Waterfront Park - waiting for a show in the seasonal Spring Carnival. 10 minutes later this area was cleared as the show was cancelled due to extreme high winds - as would all outside entertainment be bar one further show at the Lido Isle.
Base:
Toyville/Toy Story Mania - battling those exceptionally high winds can play havoc with a panoramic shot :))
Now that the dust has settled a bit, perhaps it's time to upload some of my small Woolworths backlog. This picture of the Great Yarmouth store was taken three months ago when, as far as any of us knew, all was well with the great household-name retailer.
View from hill top.
Stop at a temple along the river, opposite a city which had been flooded by the dam and relocated higher on the banks of the river
The Three Mile Island nuclear power station, near Harrisburg, PA, where a nuclear accident happened in March 1979. Unit 2 has been innoperative since the accident, Unit 1 is still in operation (as can be seen by the smoke in its cooling towers).
Spot this Three Wheel car in a Service near M5.
I've never ever seen such three wheel cars except bond type movies.
Day Three at the shop!
More about it on my blog:
cyclingwmd.blogspot.com/2011/04/yamaguchi-frame-building-...
taken through a prism. A lot of fun.
For supereasymemoirlist -
· Yourself: elated
· Your partner: hilarious
· Your hair: rarely blowdried
· Your Mother: heartful
· Your (step) Father: sunshine
· Your Favorite Item: my pen
· Your dream last night: Anthony Kiedis
· Your Favorite Drink: gin & tonic
· Your Dream Car: electric
· Your Dream Home: a bus
· The Room You Are In: white-on-white
· Your Ex: disappointing
· Your fear: myself
· Where you Want to be in Ten Years?: published
· Who you hung out with last night: Mick & Airdrie & cheap curry
· What You're Not: polished
· Muffins: white choc & raspberry
· One of Your Wish List Items: $10 million
· Time: an abusive lover
· The Last Thing You Did: resigned
· What You Are Wearing: sky blue
· Your favorite weather: cool sunshine
· Your Favorite Book?: The Time Traveller's Wife
· Last thing you ate?: spirulina
· Your Life: everything
· Your mood: hopeful
· Your Best Friends: the meaning
· What are you thinking about right now?: a job interview/coffee/muffins/my best friends/every line of this thing/flickr/thinking of things/how many things am I thinking/arrrrggghhhhhhhhh I'm meltinggggggg......
· Your car: my bike
· What are you doing at the moment: pretending to work
· Your summer: still to come
· Relationship status: married
· What is on your tv?: a fish
· What is the weather like: This is Melbourne - today it's hailed, rained, blown a gale, and now it's gloriously sunny.
· When is the last time you laughed: about three lines up
Growing up in Flint, I never had a reason to stay here, but this Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge over by the Courtland Center / Eastland Mall always looked like a really nice place. I loved the 60's architecture of the front office building, and the signage was also cool.
Now, the motel is abandoned and stripped. It has slid downhill fast since I first photographed it in February of 2011.
Remnants of a bygone era...
Flint, Michigan.
On Center Rd., just south of Court St.
Sunday, August 5, 2012.
It’s a short ride on a sunny, arid morning down Congress Street in downtown Tucson, Arizona, to the dusty field that’s home to the Rio Nuevo landfills.
Right now, Nearmont, the smallest of three landfills on the site, doesn’t look at all like one. It’s just a bumpy 90-acre stretch of wide-open, dusty land beneath the shadow of downtown’s skyscrapers and against the bone-dry Santa Cruz River.
Drive back about 1,000 feet on the utility road, and you’ll see a chain link fence with an open gate. The chain link surrounds a square plot of land, fifty feet long and wide. On the plot at exact intervals is a nine-point grid of PVC piping penetrating the landfill beneath. A small construction trailer sits against the fence. And across from that, a large utility box, wires running into the ground.
To the untrained eye, it looks to be nothing more than a Tucson city water experiment. Or to the more suspicious in the desert, a covert government project. But this experimental PVC pipe grid - and what it’s doing underneath the landfill - could change the way brownfields sites of tomorrow are remediated.
Past, Future and Present
Behind the chain link fence is the City of Tucson’s bioreactor project. It is the physical beginning of a monumental and aggressive brownfields land remediation and redevelopment project. The landfill will become part of Rio Nuevo - an entire city district in the heart of Tucson’s downtown.
Projected, Rio Nuevo will take at least 20 years and $350 million to complete. The new bioreactor technology on Nearmont is paving the way for the Rio Nuevo of the future: an entire city district that will pay homage to the city’s historic past as one of the oldest settlements in the West.
In fact, archeologists have found that people have lived in the Tucson area as far back as 2,600 years ago. What’s now Nearmont was once part of the land where the San Augustin Mission was established in mid 1700s. The old Mission included a convento - a priest’s residence and trade school - a mission garden, a chapel, a granary and smaller storage buildings, the entire grounds surrounded by a wall. By 1840, the Mission had finally been abandoned.
As the Mission ruins disappeared into the late 1800s and early 1900s, the site became home to a clay pit. That ceased operations for good in the 1940’s, until it became its final incarnation: a 1950’s-era city dump. For twelve years, the site saw the only the city’s trash, until it was closed and forgotten in 1962. Thirty-seven years passed until Rio Nuevo had its rebirth.
In November of 1999, Tucson politicians put Proposition 400 in front of the voters - its purpose to raise $60 million in Arizona state tax money over ten years to help fund the Rio Nuevo project. It passed by a convincing 62% margin.
Among the planned projects at Rio Nuevo are a full-scale recreation of the San Augustin Mission and adjoining Cultural Plaza. Also planned are an Arizona Historical Museum, an American Indian Cultural Center and a Mercado with retail stores. More downtown housing will be added. Future additions include the Sonoran Sea Aquarium, the Tucson Science Center, an IMAX Theatre, an expanded Tucson Convention Center, and a City Visitor’s Center.
But the completed vision of Rio Nuevo is some years away. What Rio Nuevo has now is what’s behind the chain link fence - the experimental bioreactor.
100 Years in 40 Months
Underneath the Nearmont landfills lie decades of Tucson refuse. Between 15 and 50 feet of it.
The problem: the trash beneath the landfill must be degraded and made non-reactive. That, added with the methane gas landfills naturally produce make it too undesirable for building. Otherwise, any construction on the land would be at least century away - the time it would take the garbage in Nearmont to degrade naturally.
Tucson’s Office of Environmental Management (OEM), however, was preparing a solution - the bioreactor. But remediation technology like it had never been used before. If it did work, and proved safe and cost-effective, it would be used to remediate the other landfills.
The process it performs is called enhanced aerobic degradation. Simply, the nine-spot PVC pipe grid - dug under the ground and inside the landfill - naturally accelerates the landfill degradation by pumping controlled amounts of air and water into the refuse itself.
According to the data OEM has collected so far, the bioreactor will break down and settle the refuse, as well as eliminating the landfill’s natural methane production, in about 40 months. The end result: Composted land, ready for development.
Not only that, Tucson’s bioreactor has proven safe and cost-effective. Most importantly, it works. So well, that it's being made into a full-scale system for use on all three landfills.
Basingstoke. During the recovery from a major signal failure at Woking, a northbound container working disappears towards Reading while a Salisbury line train eases out of the up sidings. In the background, Stanier 'Black Five' 44871 coasts towards its booked stop at platform 1 with the 11 December run to Sherborne. Shortly after this shot was taken, all four through platforms held down passenger trains!
Toes...Zac Brown Band
I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand
Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand
Life is good today, life is good today
Well, the plane touched down just about three o'clock
And the city's still on my mind
Bikinis and palm trees danced in my head
I was still in the baggage line
Concrete and cars are their own prison bars
Like this life I'm living in
But the plane brought me farther, I'm surrounded by water
And I'm not going back again
I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand
Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand
Life is good today, life is good today
Adios and vaya con Dios
Yeah, I'm leaving GA
And if it weren't for tequila and pretty senoritas
I'd have no reason to stay
Adios and vaya con Dios
Yeah, I'm leaving GA
Gonna lay in the hot sun and roll a big fat one
And grab my guitar and play
Four days flew by like a drunk Friday night
As the summer drew to an end
( From: www.elyrics.net/read/z/zac-brown-band-lyrics/toes-lyrics.... )
They can't believe that I just couldn't leave
And I bid adieu to my friends
'Cause my bartender, she's from the islands
Her body's been kissed by the sun
And coconut replaces the smell of the bar
And I don't know if it's her or the rum
I got my toes in the water, ass in the sand
Not a worry in the world, a cold beer in my hand
Life is good today, life is good today
Adios and vaya con Dios
A long way from GA
Yes, and all the muchachas, they call me big poppa
When I throw pesos their way
Adios and vaya con Dios
A long way from GA
Someone do me a favor and pour me some Jaeger
And I'll grab my guitar and play
Adios and vaya con Dios
Going home now to stay
The senoritas don't care-o when there's no dinero
Yeah, I got no money to stay
Adios and vaya con Dios
Going home now to stay
I'm just gonna drive up by the lake
And put my ass in a lawn chair, toes in the clay
Not a worry in the world, a PBR on the way
Life is good today, life is good today
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