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A growing literature has documented that firm dynamics exhibit substantial differences in developed and developing countries. While there is a massive turnover of firms in developed countries, such a selection mechanism is largely absent in developing countries. Understanding the determinants of firm growth, factor reallocation, and firm-level productivity, as well as the link between firm and industry dynamics is key to shed light on performances of aggregate economies. This conference will have prominent researchers present their recent work on the subject and foster a conversation among scholars that use different approaches to understand firm and industry dynamics and their aggregate implications.
HOA-B bogie aggregate hopper No.81 70 6957 066-8 of Mendip Rail at Keynsham, 26 May 2020. These HOA-B's were built by Astra Rail, Romania in 2015-16.
Riverside Wharf, Aggregate, Bowsprite, River Thames, Nine Elms, Battersea, Pimlico, Westminster, 1987, 87c08-01-31
Hanson Aggregates (ex-ARC Amey Roadstone Corp.)
TOPS/UIC Code: JHA-O
TOPS/UIC Number: ARC 17917
TOPS/UIC Design Code: JH017D
102.6-tonne Bogie Limestone Hopper - Outer
Blt. Powell Duffryn Standard, Heywood, 1990 (ARC 17902-17932, Total - 31)
Westbury North Jn, Wiltshire
October 10th, 2016
1600 x 1050
66 089 heads 4M11 10.42 Washwood Heath to Peak Forest empties thundering along the 1908 cut-off line towards Kingsbury Junction.
A mini-series following my 44mm-high Homies character Pelon, where he poses for photo ops at potholes on the streets of Mount Tabor Park.
Leadership fixes potholes, not patching.
Chronic neglect of Portland’s streets is manifesting in the burgeoning number and size of dangerously large potholes across the city. Here, pothole road damage is seen in Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon.
Engineering: From a technical perspective, a great deal of information can be gleaned from a deep pothole, as it provides a cross-section-view of the pavement structural section…or lack thereof, as in this case. Here, the asphalt wearing surface is heavily pitted, highly oxidized and brittle, confirming many years of neglect. The asphalt layer is minimal; confirming this road never received the maintenance originally planned. The size variation of aggregate chunks in the base course layer tells the story of a roadway constructed originally from well-graded materials. Roadway base course should be well-graded, faceted aggregate so as to provide optimum particle interlock. The breakup of pavement behind and to the left of Pelon – at the gutter – suggests that poor drainage played a role in this failure, and absence or repair has allowed water to saturate the base layers and complete the failure. This road has failed due to neglect and no amount of patching will restore a level of service – or service life – that should be reasonably expected of it.
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Attending early on Monday having seen that the Bardon Aggregates train on its allotted early path, 03:04, was over 2 hours late starting from the quarry and had then been cancelled before it got to Mantle Lane, 28 minutes away due, it was reported, to a 'points failure'. The working, 6E48, was then re-timed for a 05:10 departure which meant the working was going to be late here though in the event the stops en-route weren't taken so it managed to pick up some time, arriving at 09:30 but still 2.5 hours later than the original working would have arrived. This meant its activity would be timed at a more convenient time in the morning and so these shots show both this and as a complete surprise, a DBS 60, 60066, (built in August 1991) 'John Logie Baird' doing in the Yard what it was built for; shunting wagons and making up a consist for the late afternoon working to Immingham Dock. At top left, a composite to get the two trains in the frame with maximum aspect! we see in the background, GBRf class 66, 66755 stood on the Bardon Aggregates line, the rear wagons being slowly pulled through the building where the wagons' contents are disgorged; timed this was taking round 5 minutes each and there were 20 wagons in the consist of 2400 tonnes. In what is now ALL that is left of Tinsley Yard on the north-east side next to the M1 motorway, silver liveried DBS (DB Schenker) class 60, 60066 is pulling billet wagons along into the Yard having recently reversed them out of the Outokumpu works, seen behind the Aggregates facility in the top left picture, and is binging them into the Yard to couple up with additional billets and some empties. In the second of the four shots (from more than a hundred taken!), the billet wagons have been taken down the line, crossed over and then shunted onto the front of a similar set, which was standing on the first road right in front of the camera. Then, the 60 has run forward and set back through the points at the end of the Yard once more and then backed down the third road to hook onto some empty wagons of the same kind. This picture shows one of the two staff present releasing the 'handbrake' on the first of the line of EWS labelled wagons. In the lower left picture the 60 has pulled these forwards and then reversed these onto the line of fully loaded billet wagons on the first road. Finally the 60 pulls the whole line of wagons forward and uncouples them at the points where one of the staff is stood on the right in the last picture. The 60 then takes the empty 4th road and moves off, light engine to await its outward passage this evening when it will couple onto the other end of the line and take these forward out of the Yard through Shepcote Lane Junction, along past Tinsley south and east junctions and so to Immingham. Easy! The inward working, 0J03, this morning set off at 03:51, 19 minutes early and arrived here at 05:40. This evening the working is 6D03, Tinsley back to Immingham at 19:25, 16 minutes early and arrives Immingham at 22:20, 13 minutes early.. All this is a good example of just what the Yard used to be for but with a much more intensive service!
This morning’s busy scene in Brett’s Aggregates at Cliffe in Kent.
Class 66, 66013 with 6T93 a regular “Trip” working from Hoo Junction with wagons requiring sand under the loading conveyor belt.
To the right Class 66 66015 with 7U71 a working to Day’s Aggregates at Stewarts Lane, Battersea.
Seeded Exposed Aggregate using imported decorative pebbles that are seeded into concrete.
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filling in the inspection pit at B.T. fleets garage , hartford way sealand rosd ind est chester ..............................12.01.2017
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Aggregate Industries liveried 66711 approaching Pelaw Metro Station with 4N59 13:15 Tyne Dock - North Blyth.
A mini-series following my 44mm-high Homies character Pelon, where he poses for photo ops at potholes on the streets of Mount Tabor Park.
Leadership fixes potholes, not patching.
Chronic neglect of Portland’s streets is manifesting in the burgeoning number and size of dangerously large potholes across the city. Here, pothole road damage is seen in Mount Tabor Park, Portland, Oregon.
Engineering: From a technical perspective, a great deal of information can be gleaned from a deep pothole, as it provides a cross-section-view of the pavement structural section…or lack thereof, as in this case. Here, the asphalt wearing surface is heavily pitted, highly oxidized and brittle, confirming many years of neglect. The asphalt layer is minimal; confirming this road never received the maintenance originally planned. The large cobbles of the base course layer tell the story of a roadway constructed originally from poorly graded materials. Roadway base course should be well-graded, faceted aggregate so as to provide optimum particle interlock. The conclusion is simple; this road has failed due to neglect and no amount of patching will restore a level of service – or service life – that should be reasonably expected of it.
#portlandpotholes #PortlandOregon #MtTaborPark #potholes #neglect #deferredmaintenance #fail #safety #politics #civilengineering
Sunday and not much happening on the network ... except two moves, the 1st from Pontefract, a Civil Engineers train of 1000 tonnes operated by DBS and due to sit in the Brightside Up/Down East Slow line for an hour awaiting passage back north to Doncaster. This is a circuitous route south from Pontefract through Moorthorpe and Masbrough to Brightside for reversal, only for it to go back north, taking the east-bound turnout at Swinton, through Hexthorpe to the yard at Doncaster. It wasn't always this way however as the south-bound line crossed the Doncaster line at South Elmsall, making north to east moves possible and there was a similar connection on the south side of the Doncaster line for west to south moves. These two connections were still in situ in 1913 between what was then the south-bound, S&K (Swinton & Knottingley) line and the West Riding & Grimsby line (of the G.N & G.C.R) and the southern connections was still present in 1953 as it still is today allowing moves from the south to and from Wakefield. The northern connection had been taken out by the early-1950s and it is this curve which would have proved useful today, unless it was a driver, route learning exercise in which case the jaunt along to the loop at Brightside may have been for other reasons. The working is sat at the end of the loop in these shots off beyond the postal sorting office seen in the next pictures and Arfadint has a picture of that situation here-
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and shows the Freightliner class 66, 66053 sat at the end of the loop with its short rake of wagons as DBS 60024 approaches on the outside road, the 60 itself set to run round its train once the 66 has departed on the 6T60, Pontefract Baghill to Belmont Down Yard working. These pictures show the working of DBS class 60, 60024, coming along the curve out of the site of the old Coopers Scrapyard, now occupied by both EMR, European Metal Recyclers, and Cemex Cement and although this may look like scrap train, the wagons hold aggregates. This is yet another location which is becoming more and more festooned with vegetation though not quite close enough to the tracks to warrant any NR action... unfortunately.
66776 passes under the footbridge at Hatton North Junction with 6G99 0645 Tunstead to Banbury and another load of Peak District aggregate for use in HS2. This was the third train of the day from Tunstead to Banbury.
LTC's lime green TEM2-080 is seen sat atop a third of an aggregate rake at Hrubieszow Miasto as the load is being unloaded by a grabber, with the other two thirds of the train sat in the adjacent station sidings
Focus on Eldercare's response to COVID-19
At the purpose when the noxious impacts of COVID-19 showed first in Wuhan, the entire city and therefore the entire of Hubei Province ground to a halt. The lockdown of Wuhan brought remarkable torment and threatening difficulties for several individual occupants therein first focus. Presently, COVID-19 represents those equivalent difficulties for individuals and social welfare frameworks all-inclusive. Especially, it tests our aggregate endeavors to believe one another, particularly the foremost defenseless among us.
As a populace, individuals quite 70 will generally have more fragile insusceptible frameworks and progressively fundamental conditions that obstruct their capacity to battle the infection. They're likewise sure to dwell on bunch day to day environments, nearby people. Floods of COVID-19 passings in nursing homes — first within the Seattle territory, at that time on the brink of Sacramento and now during the country — have underscored this inauspicious reality. Up until now, Californians quite 65 have made up, at any rate, a fourth of the state's affirmed instances of COVID-19.
Be that because it may, guidelines, especially for helping living offices, are unsafely failing to satisfy the expectations in protecting California's older folks from this infection. Luck, Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan on Aging activity, as of now ongoing, presents an opportunity to forcefully address this peril and find how to secure an enormous number of more seasoned Americans.
Helped living focuses are an aid to the Eldercare business and therefore the enormous corporate proprietors that currently command the market. Simultaneously, in any case, an absence of guideline and oversight of staffing levels and capabilities — particularly prerequisites for on-location doctors and much prepared clinical experts — has left the business defenseless against misuse and unfortunate results. One glaring issue that has got to be tended to: helped living focuses are directed by the state Department of Social Services rather than the Department of Public Health.
In any case, it helped to measure maybe a piece of social welfare and clinical consideration conveyance framework, not only a direction for living. Propelled a year ago, Newsom's plan on Aging has framed a warning advisory group, is holding open gatherings and within the fall is planned to offer a 10-year plan which will address issues from lodging and vagrancy to crisis readiness to manhandle and disrespect. The venture has made a "Value Committee" to urge a contribution from a progressively differing gathering of residents and associations, including agents of the crippled network, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities.
Considering the spreading coronavirus general wellbeing emerging, it's basic that the representative's plan on Aging takes on an expansive and genuine open arrangement job. We weren't bothered with elevated level clichés for tending to the wants of the old. We'd like solid arrangements, solid guidelines with implementation teeth and a guarantee to continued oversight.
The Age of COVID-19
Older people who get themselves out of the blue alone without authority over their conditions are at specific hazards for an assortment of serious, even hazardous, physical and psychological well-being conditions, including a subjective decrease. Limitations on the opportunity of development ought to be proportionate and not founded solely on age.
COVID-19, as different irresistible melodies, represents a higher hazard to populaces that live in nearness. This hazard is especially intense in nursing or matured consideration offices, where the infection can spread quickly and has just brought about numerous passings. About 1.5 million older people individuals live in the nursing homes in the US, barring helped living offices and different settings making nearness.
Twenty-three individuals kicked the bucket in a flare-up at an office in Washington State in February and March, and the US Centers for Disease Control detailed 400 additional cases in offices as of April 1. On March 31, wellbeing experts in the Grand East district of France detailed 570 passings of older people in nursing homes.
Older people often end up in nursing homes due to governments' inability to offer adequate social types of assistance for individuals to live freely in the network, approaches that have put millions at included danger of getting the infection as a result of their organization. Governments ought to guarantee the progression of network-based administrations with the goal that individuals don't wind up in organizations without different alternatives.
Expound now on the roles played via care laborers in continuing the lives of the old during that emergency, and who, however dreadful themselves, by and by remain day in and outing inside the bounds of their wards to offer fundamental consideration.
Care supervisor Chang, the woman in charge of the consideration laborers among whom I led my hands-on work, coordinated the change of her ward into a self-sufficient fixed of a unit of care. The passage to her floor is carefully monitored; just fundamental conveyances are permitted, for instance, nourishment and clothing. Since nobody can enter or leave the structure, the flask for the older was transformed into a dozing region for care laborers. Despite the very fact that a lot of consideration laborers have their circle of relatives to require care of, they put that piece of their life under the control of others. Care specialist Lin, whose spouse died at the start of the pandemic, did not have the chance to completely grieve his passing due to incessant understaffing at Sunlight. She came back to figure following the burial service, despite realizing that she not, at now expected to figure at Sunlight to hide her significant other's clinical costs. Lin's arrival says much regarding her promise to her calling, to her colleagues, and to the old she had come to understand so well. My examination with care laborers recommends that it's an enthusiastic association and an awareness of other's expectations that propels them to remain the end of the day in care work. This is often borne out immediately.
Carefully add China is often seen as being grimy and unfortunate, thanks to an excellent extension to its nearby hook up with the realistic consideration required by slight, skilled bodies. Chinese consideration laborers are for the foremost part provincial to urban transients or urban specialists laid far away from previous state-claimed processing plants. In any case, direct consideration is intricate. In any case, its unpredictability goes unrecognized, or maybe disregarded by institutional powers that organize benefits and generalize the old as bodies to chip away at, to the disregard of their social-passionate necessities. As is valid with Sunlight, things which might typically undermine the keenness of care laborers, for instance, the absence of institutional acknowledgment for his or her enthusiastic work, are required to be postponed. Care specialists are currently centered around a shared objective: ensuring the gift assistance of the older. COVID-19 propels care laborers to consider what kind of care is required and the way to offer that care. It fills in as a channel through which the elemental beliefs of care are observed. Care is about common human weakness and our intrinsic association. Care laborers at Sunlight, in their aggregate every minute of everyday endeavors to secure the older, typify this ethic through their consideration. May the respectful regard, they hold of the older in their consideration redound on them and everyone consideration laborers overall who are fighting this pandemic on the bleeding edge!
Like the consideration laborers at Sunlight, the laborers in numerous nations are regarded human life so that we cannot be embarrassed to return clean with the leading edge about ourselves. Salute the spearheading staff who salutes our purposeful endeavors to handle the pandemic in numerous settings around the globe, within the daylight, yet additionally to ensure that veterans are appropriately treated, took care of and washed.
We all hope and pray that the coronavirus will soon be controlled and subdued. And that when the crisis is behind us, that we continue the important work of protecting the elderly and other vulnerable segments of our citizenry.
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Operated by: Aggregate Industries, Eagan, MN
Unit Number: 150
Body: McNeilus
Chassis: Sterling
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Seen delivering a concrete pour at a jobsite in front of Landmark Centre in downtown Saint Paul, MN
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Aggregating anemones, bleached coralline algae, and an ochre sea star in a tide pool at Brady's
Beach.
July 2011.
Aggregates, and beyond Cliffe Fort, and in the distance is Tilbury Power Station on the far side of the Thames.
Fire at the Aggregate Industries quarry off of Piney Meetinghouse Road near Travilah, Maryland.
According to news sources, the fire involved two liquid asphalt tanks, one tank containing used motor oil, and various other miscellaneous equipment owned by the F.O. Day Bituminous Company, which has facilities on the site. Due to its being an oil fire, they couldn't use water on the flames, so they had to get a foam unit to come out from Dulles Airport to help extinguish the fire. The fire was completely out by the evening. Fortunately, everyone on site was safely evacuated, and no one was hurt. There was also no danger to the public or the surrounding area, and a fire department spokesman likened the smoke to a bad air quality day. So at the end of the day, it was only property damage, i.e. nothing that money can't fix.
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Although is was a very sunny day, a few tiny louds were formed in the afternoon and one of them 'toched' the sun unfortunately when the Yeoman liveried 59004, the last one of the 59/0-series in Britain I hadn't had a photo of untill then, passed with another matching empty hopper train. It could be a lot worse though and considering this was one of the only two times in a week the sun was not perfect at the right time, I can't complain!