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My 'Wreck This Journal' as of 6 October 2012. I've had it for a couple of months now.
My cousin drew this spongebob and I coloured it in a little bit! Decided to wrap a powder compact.
Taken with Canon EOS 60D.
This car hit my daughter last Saturday, And guess what ! ! !
He had no Insurance or a Driver License!
I've been after one of these 'Wreck This Journal' books for 2 years now and when I was out shopping in Liverpool yesterday I spotted an Urban Outfitters shop (which I didn't even know was there. How I've never noticed it... I'll never know) and didn't even think about it and just ran in to the shop to go and find one as everytime I've tried to order one on the shops website, they've been sold out.
I like fun projects like this so it should keep me entertained for a while.
Une autre E28 ! Et celle ci est néanmoins encore reconnaissable car non brûlée, elle était même immatriculée dans le 77 et avait encore sa plaque arrière...
Detail of a 250-ton wreck crane at the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum.
It seemed to me kind of an odd name for a crane or a crane maker to have ... but no, it was the perfectly logical result of the merger of Industrial Works and Brown Hoisting Co.
Industrial Brownhoist built this one for the Erie Railroad in 1955 and it was most recently part of the Conrail fleet. The museum says it’s still serviceable.
The Disaster
On the evening of 25th October 1960 a number of barges were making their way up river from Avonmouth to Sharpness. Amongst them were two vessels operated by John Harker Ltd. of Knottingley, Yorkshire. The WASTDALE H had been built locally at Sharpness Shipyard in 1951. She was a tanker barge and was carrying a load of petroleum. The ARKENDALE H had been built by Richards Ironworks of Lowestoft in 1937 as a dumb (unpowered) tanker barge. She had been converted to a motor barge in 1948 and was later lengthened. Her cargo was Britoleum black oil, a heavy oil which required her to be fitted with heating coils in her tanks to keep the oil liquid.
The barges hit thick fog near Berkeley Power Station and the strong incoming tide was running at 5 knots making it difficult to manoeuvre the vessels for their approach to the lock at Sharpness. Both barges were swept past the lock entrance and the found themselves by the old, disused dock entrance further upstream. The two barges came abreast and the skippers found it impossible to separate them. Whilst they struggled to break them apart they drifted yet further upstream until the port bow of the WASTDALE H hit pier 17 of the bridge. The bridge shook with the impact and the WASTDALE H turned onto her port side and began to sink. As pier 17 gave way under the pressure the two spans it supported fell onto the barges causing the WASTDALE H’s petroleum cargo to ignite and explode. The ARKENDALE H’s cargo of black oil was also ruptured and with the help of the petroleum it too ignited leaving the entire expanse of the river blazing. The two barges drifted on up river before grounding on the Ridge Sandbank. Skipper George Thompson of the ARKENDALE H managed to make it ashore. His engineer Jack Cooper also survived but not before he received a severe back injury sustained by an encounter with the still-rotating propeller of the sinking ARKENDALE H. Skipper James Dew of the WASTDALE H was the only other survivor. The other five crew members were missing.
The next morning the smouldering wrecks of the two barges were left high and dry on the sand with the WASTDALE H standing on her port side. On the following tide she settled back to en even keel. Attempts were made to pump out and search both vessels for the missing crew members but their inaccessible position made the job difficult. All five bodies were later found at various locations along the Severn. On 30th October 1960 the Army blew holes in the bow and stern of both barges to prevent them refloating. They remain there to this day, submerged at high tide and exposed at low tide.
On the night of the disaster the Fairfields workers engaged on the strengthening of the bridge decided to take an early meal break in order to listen to the Henry Cooper v Karl Muller boxing match on the wireless at Severn Bridge Station. Had they not done so the death toll would have been considerably worse as the span they were working on was one of the two that fell.
Within a month of the disaster the Western Region of British Railways had prepared an outline plan to repair the bridge. Pier 16 would be repaired and a new concrete pier would be constructed to replace pier 17. A single, welded mild steel span would then be placed across the top, supported in the middle by the new pier. The projected cost for this was £85,000.
It was found that pier 16 was significantly damaged and was leaning towards the Sharpness bank. It was therefore decided to erect a timber trestle beneath span 15-16 and the contract to do this was awarded to Peter Lind & Co. Ltd.
The bridge suffered further mishap on 17th February 1961 when the tanker barge BP EXPLORER capsized and struck pier 20 causing a further £12,740 worth of damage.
Peter Lind & Co. Ltd. hired the twin floating crane TWEEDLEDUM & TWEEDLEDEE to assist with the erection of the trestle. On the 14th April 1961 the TWEEDLEDUM & TWEEDLEDEE broke away from its moorings on a flood tide and drifted into the bridge damaging the dolphins on pier 20. The crane jib also struck the underside of the bridge. This time the damage was estimated at £6,000."
Vanellope von Schweetz: What's your name?
Wreck-It Ralph: Wreck-It Ralph.
Vanellope von Schweetz: Why are your hands so freakishly big?
Wreck-It Ralph: I don't know. Why are you so freakishly annoying?
--Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Another shot from the Sugar Rush Meet and Greet at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
(Walt Disney World -- Hollywood Studios -- The Magic of Disney Animation)
Thanks for stopping by!
Deboxing my Vanellope Von Schweetz Talking 11'' Doll. She has been taken out of the box, but is still attached to the cardboard backing and plastic spacer by wires and rubber bands. Fortunately, there are no plastic T-tabs attached to her clothing or her head, so removing her from the packaging is easier than with most of the 12'' Disney Princess dolls, especially the Limited Edition ones.
Vanellope Von Schweetz Talking 11'' Doll
Character From Wreck-It Ralph
US Disney Store
$24.50 US
Personal photos of the newly released Vanellope Von Schweetz Talking 11'' Doll. She is one of the main characters of the new Disney animated movie Wreck-It Ralph, which went into wide release in the US on November 2, 2012. I purchased this doll today (November 8) for 25% off, using the Friends and Family coupon.
Product information from the US Disney Store website:
Vanellope Von Schweetz Talking Doll - Wreck-It Ralph - 11''
$24.50
Item No. 6070040900172P
Sweet talker
''I've got a date with destiny,'' boasts the chatty Vanellope. As one of the characters from the Sugar Rush game in Wreck-It Ralph, 'the Glitch' has plenty to say for herself as your little one will discover with this talking doll.
Magic in the details...
•Press button on front to hear lots of different Vanellope phrases!
•Fabric clothing with embroidered detailing and glitter accents
•Textured hair
•Fully poseable
•Inspired by Wreck-It Ralph
The bare necessities
•Ages 3+
•Requires 3 x AG3 button-cell batteries, included
•Plastic, polyester
•12'' H
•Imported
Safety
WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.
I got this for my sister's birthday. It's called Wreck This Journal. On every page it lists something crazy for you to do to the journal (spill something on the page, glue two pages together, rip out a page and make a paper airplane, write a list of your favorite things on a page, etc). There's a group on Flickr with lots of photos of what people have done: WTJ Flickr Pool. I helped her out by doodling over top of the title page and the copyright page with my birthday message to her. :)
Fraser Island-QLD-OZ (From my East Coast Travel's)
Wreck of the Maheno
A major landmark of Fraser Island is the shipwreck of the S.S. Maheno. The S.S. Maheno was originally built in 1905 in Scotland as a luxury passenger ship for trans-Tasman crossings. During the First World War the ship served as a hospital ship in the English Channel, before returning to a luxury liner. In 1935, the ship was declared outdated and on June 25th, 1935 the ship was being towed from Melbourne to Japan for scrap metal when it was caught in a strong cyclone. A few days later, on July 9th 1935 she drifted ashore and was beached on Fraser Island. During the Second World War the Maheno served as target bombing practice for the RAAF. The ship has since become severely rusted, with almost three and a half storeys buried under the sand. ( From Wikipedia)