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Inspired by doing the laundry this morning. This is an out of focus/abstract shot of the agitator blades in our washing machine before the clothes went in. Taken with a Canon 60mm USM Macro lens. Type L for a better view.
Our Daily Challenge - Washing - 10/6/13
Near the Bundaleer station homestead is the Bundaleer Reservoir. The reservoir was built between 1898 and 1903 to provide water for Port Pirie, Snowtown, Brinkworth, Blyth etc. It is a simple earth wall reservoir but its construction made it one of the engineering feats of Australia and it is listed as the seventh engineering achievement of Australia! Planning work began in 1891 but on the ground work only commenced in 1898. Unlike other reservoirs it is not located on a river or creek and it is not located in steep terrain with gorges etc. It receives water from concreted channels which cover over 30 kms bringing water from the Broughton River, Bundaleer Creek and Never Never Creek. All the water reaches the reservoir using natural slopes and gravity without pumps. To achieve this one major aqueduct was erected across one creek and sometimes the concrete water channels become tunnels when they go under hills. Unfortunately these engineering marvels are no longer used. Once the Morgan to Whyalla Murray River pipeline passed the reservoir in 1944 water was then pumped into the reservoir from the Murray. The amazing aqueduct now leaks water when rainfall fills the channels. Bundaleer received quite a bit of press notice during construction because in the early days a major embankment collapse was a disaster. In Friday 25th May 1899 the accident happened and five men were killed - Patrick McGrath, William Larkin, James Crotty, W Hamilton and William Ahearn and three other men were seriously injured. All were young and probably family men. Despite this accident worked proceeded and the camp director C. S. Mann later reported that it was an unpopular place to work because of its isolation but the main ones complaining at conditions at the camp were the duffers and agitators not the good workers. About 500 men worked with picks and shovels on the dam construction at any one time. Mr Mann was the engineer in chief who designed the reservoir and aqueduct and channels he was also the architect of the Happy Valley reservoir system which linked the weir on the Onkaparinga River at Clarendon to the reservoir at Happy Valley many miles away beyond a range of hills. The steel aqueduct was started in 1900. £12,000 was spent on the aqueduct and the concrete channels but of this amount £8,000 was for the aqueduct alone. It carried and still carries water from Bundaleer Creek to the reservoir. It is 500 feet long (152 metres) and 50 feet high (52 metres). The reservoir embankment was 80 feet high (25 metres), 400 feet thick (122 metres) and 1,100 feet (335 metres) long. The Governor visited the aqueduct and the reservoir on its opening in October 1903. Meantime worked was under way to lay pipes to the main towns that were going to receive reticulated water for the first time. The main pipeline ascended the Hummock Ranges beyond Snowtown and joined the Beetaloo Reservoir to Moonta pipeline at Keilli near Mundoora. The total cost of the reservoir, earthworks, aqueduct, channels and pipelines was around £599,000 with £220,000 spent on the reservoir and associated drainage works.
Near the Bundaleer Creek aqueduct as some signs of old mining on the eastern hills. Three lodes of good quality copper were discovered here in 1858 and a group of men from Burra set up the Wheal Sarah Mining Company. Shafts up to 200 feet deep were sunk and thirty three tons of copper were extracted by May 1859 with the ore being about 60% pure copper. The mine operated only from 1859 to 1861 as the copper deposits were not extensive enough to be viable after the early success. Yet a new company was formed to rework the mines and shafts in 1909 but it had no success and ceased operation in 1912.
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This day in Disney history:
(1947) Walt Disney testified, along with longtime friend and then-president of the Screen Actors Guild Ronald Reagan, as a “friendly witness” before the House of Representatives' Un-American Activities Committee. Disney had been deeply stung by union organizers and, later, strikers at his studios, whom he firmly believed were Communist agitators. Under questioning, Disney identified four of his former employees as Communists, though he had no evidence. He then reassured the committee that he was firmly convinced that Walt Disney Studios had been cleansed of any remaining Communist taint.
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MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
C L A S S I F I CATION
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2005
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product
and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
MAIN PROPULSION Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi:1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMP TION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3 srh 42 /
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 srh 42 / B RIDGE DESIGN: NAUT - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
The site had been fortified in the prehistoric period, but the construction of the castle was undertaken following the division of the Duchy of Normandy in 1204. The castle was first mentioned in 1212.The castle was the primary defence of Jersey until the development of gunpowder which then rendered the castle ultimately indefensible from Mont Saint Nicholas, the adjacent hill which overlooks the castle. Mont Orgueil was updated with platforms for artillery constructed in 1548 and 1549 under the direction of Henry Cornish, Lieutenant of the Earl of Hertford in Jersey. Cornish complained that earlier repairs to the donjon by Robert Raymont had left it so weak it was vulnerable to musket shot; "lyke a nadyl eye scarse abyll to byde a hagboshe." In 1543 he had asked for a "saker" cannon that would cover the sands between "Grovyll" and the castle, where the French had landed in the past.Mont Orgueil was to be superseded by Elizabeth Castle off Saint Helier, the construction of which commenced at the end of the 16th century. Walter Raleigh, Governor of Jersey in 1600, rejected a plan to demolish the old castle to recycle the stone for the new fortifications with the words: "'twere pity to cast it down".Mont Orgueil (French: Mount has guarded Jersey's east coast since the 13th century.The old castle continued to be used as the island's only prison until the construction of a prison in St. Helier at the end of the 17th century. The English Government found it expedient to send troublesome agitators such as William Prynne and John Lilburne to Mont Orgueil far from the realm of England. The regicides Thomas Waite, Henry Smith, James Temple, Hardress Waller, and Gilbert Millington were transferred to Mont Orgueil in 1661
The cathedral was designed by local architects John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney, collaborating with internationally known architects Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi — at the time, the Dean of the School of Architecture at MIT. Its saddle roof is composed of segments of hyperbolic paraboloids in a manner reminiscent of St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo, which was built earlier in the decade. Due to its resemblance to a large washing machine agitator, the cathedral has been nicknamed "Our Lady of Maytag" or "McGucken's Maytag".
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A bit of construction movement on Serangoon Road just opposite the famous Mustafa's Centre.
(1) - Agitator on Isuzu Super Great operating for Pan United Cement.
(2) - Mitsubishi Fuso tipper, unbranded but won the race off the lights!
Little India, Singapore
n May and June 1831 the workers of Merthyr Tydfyl, Wales, rose up against the British Government in what would become known as the Merthyr Rising. It is believed that the red flag of revolution was flown as a symbol of workers' revolt for the first time during this event.
In 1829 the iron industry entered a depression that would last three years and as a result Merthyr Tydfil’s Ironmasters took action by making many workers redundant and cutting the wages of those in work. This was set against a background of rising prices and combined this forced many people into unsustainable debt. Consequently, creditors turned to the Court of Requests, which had been set up in 1809, to allow the bailiffs to seize the property of debtors.
In 1830 the Radicals of Merthyr, as part of the National movement for political reform, organised themselves into a Political Union and in November of that year held demonstrations to protest against the Truck System and the Corn Laws. By the end of 1830 the campaign had broadened to embrace the Reform of Parliament.
In March 1831 William Crawshay announced cuts in the wages of his workers and redundancies at Cyfarthfa Ironworks, which would take effect in May. It was this, combined with similar situations in other ironworks, the hatred of the activities of the Court of Requests, and some stirring up by political agitators which lit the spark of rebellion. On May 30th 1831 at the Waun Common above Dowlais a mass meeting of over 2,000 workers was held and tensions were high.
On May 31st bailiffs from the Court of Requests attempted to seize goods from the home of Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr) at Penderyn, near Merthyr. However, neighbours rallied behind Lewis and the bailiffs were prevented from entering his home. The Magistrate, John Bruce, was called and he arranged a compromise between Lewis and the bailiffs which allowed the latter to remove a trunk belonging to Lewis. The next day workers from Merthyr marched to the Ironworks of Richard Fothergill at Aberdare where they demanded bread & cheese and created a disturbance. At the same time, at Hirwaun, a crowd led by Lewis Lewis marched to the home of a shopkeeper who was now in possession of his trunk, took the trunk back by force, and prepared to march to Merthyr.
On the march to Merthyr the crowd went from house to house, seizing any goods which the Court of Requests had taken, and returning them to their original owners. By this time the crowd had been swollen by the addition of men from the Cyfarthfa & Hirwaun Ironworks. They marched to the area behind the Castle Inn where many of the tradespeople of the town lived and in particular the home of Thomas Lewis, a hated moneylender and forced him to sign a promise to return goods to a woman whose goods he had seized for debt. Bruce arrived at the scene and recognising what was the start of a revolt withdrew. He then quickly enrolled about 70 Special Constables, mainly from the tradespeople, to help keep the peace. He also advised the Military Authorities at Brecon that he might need troops.
On June 2nd an attempt was made to persuade the crowd to disperse and when this failed the Riot Act read read in English and Welsh. This was ignored by the crowed who drove the magistrate away and attacked the home of Thomas Lewis. That evening they assembled at the home of Joseph Coffin, President of the Court of Requests, seizing the books of the Court, which they burned in the street along with his furniture. On hearing of the attack Bruce called for troops to be deployed and so soldiers of the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry were dispatched from Cardiff and a detachment of the 93rd (Sutherland) Highlanders were sent from Brecon. Meanwhile the crowd had marched to the various ironworks in the town and persuaded the workers to join them.
By the time the Highlanders had reached the Castle Inn where they were met by the High Sheriff of Glamorgan, the Merthyr Magistrates and Ironmasters and the Special Constables, a crowd of some 10,000 had gathered. The Riot Act was once more read and once more it was ignored. The crowd pressed towards the Inn with the soldiers drawn up outside. The workers demanded the suppression of the Court of Requests, higher wages, the reduction in the cost of items they used in their work and parliamentary reform; these were refused outright. They were told that if they did not disperse that the soldiers would be used. The result was to anger the crowd, which surged forward throwing stones and clubs at the soldiers. In the fight the soldiers outside the Inn were bludgeoned and stabbed, eventually provoking the soldiers stationed within to open fire, killing three of the rioters with their first shots. The fighting continued for a further 15 minutes before the crowd withdrew. Altogether 16 soldiers were wounded, 6 of them severely, and up to 24 of the rioters had been killed. The authorities withdrew to Penydarren House while rioters sent word to the Monmouthshire ironworks in an attempt to obtain further support.
By June 4th more troops including the Eastern Glamorgan Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry and the Royal Glamorgan Militia arrived in Merthyr. A troop of the Swansea Yeomanry Cavalry were ambushed on their arrival at Hirwaun, having apparently been greeted in a friendly manner. They were however quickly surrounded, their weapons seized and forced into a retreat back to Swansea, where they re-armed and joined the Fairwood Troop for the march back to Merthyr. A similar ambush was laid at Cefn Coed y Cymmer to stop ammunition being delivered from Brecon, forcing the Cardiff Troop of Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry into retreat. A troop of 100 Central Glamorgan Yeomanry was sent to assist but were unable to break through the mob. By now the rioters commandeered arms and explosives, set up road-blocks, formed guerrilla detachments, and had banners capped with a symbolic loaf and dyed in blood. Those who had military experience had taken the lead in drilling the armed para-military formation, and created an effective central command and communication system.
On Sunday June 5th delegations were sent to the Monmouthshire Iron Towns to raise further support for the riots and on June 6th a crowd of around 12,000 or more marched along the heads of the valleys from Monmouthshire to meet the Merthyr Rioters at the Waun Common. The authorities decided that rather than wait for this mob to attack them they would take the initiative, and 110 Highlanders, 53 Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia and 300 Glamorgan Yeomanry Cavalry were despatched to stop the marchers at Cefn Coed. Faced by the levelled muskets of the army the crowd dispersed without bloodshed. The Rising was effectively over.
Panic spread through Merthyr and arms were hidden, the leaders fled and workers returned to their jobs. On the evening of June 6th the authorities raided houses and arrested 18 of the rebel leaders. Eventually Lewis Lewis was found hiding in a wood near Hirwaun and a large force of soldiers escorted him in irons to Cardiff Prison to await trial.
The trials began on 13 July 1831 at Cardiff Assizes. 28 men and women were tried. Most of those found guilty were eventually sentenced to transportation. Lewis Lewis and Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) were charged with attempting to murder a soldier, Donald Black of the 93rd Highland Regiment, outside the Castle Inn on June 3rd, by stabbing him with a bayonet attached to a gun. The main evidence against the two Lewis' was from Black himself, James Abbott, a hairdresser and Special Constable and James Drew, also a hairdresser and Special Constable. On the evidence it was adjudged that Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was guilty but that Lewis Lewis was not (though he was already under sentence of death for the attack on Thomas Lewis' house). Dic Penderyn was sentenced to death.
Joseph Tregelles Price, A quaker Ironmaster from Neath, took up the case of Dic Penderyn and Lewis Lewis and presented a petition to have them transported. Evidence was produced that Abbott had threatened Penderyn prior to June 3rd and people said that Penderyn was not there when Black was attacked and that they knew who had carried out the attack but it was not Dic Penderyn. Strangely Lord Melbourn, the Home Secretary, reprieved Lewis Lewis, who was certainly one of those most responsible for the riots, and transported him to Australia, but would not reprieve Penderyn, who seems to have been much less involved. Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn) was taken from his cell at Cardiff Prison on August 13th 1831 to the gallows at St.Mary Street, Cardiff and there he was executed protesting his innocence. He was 23. His body was transported across the Vale of Glamorgan to be buried at Margam.
In 1874 the Western Mail reported that a man named Ieuan Parker had confessed to a Minister on his death bed in Pennsylvania, USA that he was the man who attacked Donald Black. James Abbott, who had testified at Penderyn's trial, later said that he had lied under oath, claiming that he had been instructed to do so by Lord Melbourne.
In 2000 a legal case was started by Lewis's descendants to seek a pardon and in June 2015, Ann Clwyd MP presented a petition for a pardon in the House of Commons. However Mike Penning, Minister for Policing, Crime and Criminal Justice, responded that pardons were only granted where evidence has come to light which demonstrates conclusively that the convicted individual was innocent and that the relevant appeal mechanisms have been exhausted. In July 2016, Stephen Kinnock MP presented a 600-signature petition to the Ministry of Justice, calling for a pardon. The Ministry of Justice replied that 10,000 signatures were required to trigger a parliamentary debate, and referred to the answer given by the ministry in 2015. Kinnock said that the fight for a pardon would continue.
Bowers Brothers Concrete Ltd are based in the Waikato Region of New Zealand's North Island.
A new delivery in 2015 is this Isuzu FYH350 8X4 cement mixer.
Registered JFA 410, it's powered by a 9839cc 6-cylinder diesel engine producing 257 kW and is seen in Rotorua at a trade show.
This is an example of a phenomenon found in the commercial districts of small towns that have undergone an economic decline. The original retailers that occupied the downtown stores are long gone.
Based on what I've seen in a number of small towns in recent years, thrift stores tend to sprout up in the places formerly occupied by such traditional retailers as jewelry stores, pharmacies, clothes emporiums or barber shops.
These second-generation stores are different in that the store fronts have hand-painted signs instead of the computer-generated signs printed on durable synthetic material.
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Here's the very long story of Raymond, Washington:
The blanket of old growth forest that covered the Willapa Hills surrounding Raymond, on the Willapa River in Pacific County, fueled the town's growth from a handful of farms to a mill town bustling with trains filled with freshly cut logs, mills running 24 hours a day, and ships laden with lumber bound for the East Coast, South American, San Francisco, and Hawaii in less than a decade after its founding in 1903.
When a combination of overharvesting, environmental laws, and changes in the global market severely reduced logging and milling in the 1980s and 1990s, Raymond residents looked to new, more sustainable ways to utilize the surrounding hills, rivers, and bay to create jobs and sustain their community.
First Peoples
The Willapa River, with headwaters in the Willapa Hills, winds through the Willapa Valley until it is reaches the sea at Willapa Bay. A few miles upstream from the river's mouth, the South Fork of the Willapa joins the main river. Sloughs thread through the lowland forming what is called the Island, though it is not technically completely encircled by water.
Prior to contact with Europeans, three tribes lived around the Willapa's mouth, the Shoalwater (or Willapa) Chinook, the Lower Chehalis, and, seasonally, the Kwalhiloqua. Epidemic diseases brought by European and white American traders wreaked havoc in the Indian communities because they lacked immunities to the diseases. A malaria epidemic in the 1830s, probably brought to the area by sailors who had been in the tropics, decimated tribes in the lower Columbia River region.
After the epidemic, the Kwalhioqua all but disappeared, and the few remaining individuals joined the Willapa Chinook and Lower Chehalis. The northern part of Willapa Bay and the Willapa River formed a boundary between the Chinooks to the south and the Lower Chehalis to the north. The two groups intermarried and traded often.
These are the people who oystermen met when they came to Willapa Bay in the 1850s to harvest shellfish for the San Francisco market. The Indians worked with the oystermen in harvesting the shellfish.
Loggers, Farmers, and Indians
It was not long before the area's forests attracted loggers and sawmill operators. Brothers John (b. ca. 1830) and Valentine Riddell (b. ca. 1817) established a mill at what would become South Bend in 1869. Others followed, included John Adams' mill on the north side of the junction of the Willapa River with the South Fork.
Several farmers staked claims in the vicinity of the junction. The community, known as Riverside, had a school in 1875 and a post office.
The Indians in the area continued to work with oystermen, and in the more recently established salmon canneries and saw mills. They also continued to visit their traditional gathering places for berries and other plant materials.
The tribes had not yet formally agreed to allow the white Americans to live on their land, so, in February 1855, Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens (1818-1862) met with the Quinault, Queets, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, Shoalwater Bay, Chinook, and Cowlitz tribes at the Chehalis River Treaty Council (at the location of Cosmopolis today). The tribes did not object to ceding their lands, but once they heard the terms of the treaty they rejected the provision that required them to move to a shared reservation away from their traditional lands with the location of the reservation to be determined later. The tribes refused to accept those conditions and Stevens left without an agreement.
The absence of a treaty did not prevent white settlers from claiming lands along the Willapa River, thereby leaving less and less room for the Indians to live. On September 22, 1866 President Andrew Johnson (1808-1875) established the Shoalwater Bay Tribes Reservation by reserving 335 acres near Tokeland for the Lower Chehalis and Willapa Chinook who lived along Willapa Bay. The reservation is and has been used by a number of the tribes' members, but many also live in the surrounding communities (and elsewhere).
Raymond is Formed
In 1889 the promise of a Northern Pacific Railway terminus in South Bend, just downstream from the river junction, led to a land boom. Lots in South Bend and along the river in both directions sold for incredible profits until 1893 when a national financial panic led to a bust in South Bend. South Bend had the county seat and retained the railroad and some operating mills, but a grant of land to the Northern Pacific on the waterfront tied up many of its choicest industrial sites.
Upriver, at the river junction, a group of residents, some with Homestead Act claims and others who had bought land at low prices following the bust in South Bend, formed the Raymond Land and Development Company in 1903.
Incorporators of the land company included Leslie (1874-1961) (often referred to as L. V.) and Stella (1875-1960) Raymond, who had a farm on the Island. Stella had inherited the land from her father, Captain George Johnson (1823-1882), who had established a Homestead Act Claim for almost 179 acres. Presumably Johnson or the Raymonds purchased part of their holdings, because they brought 310 acres to the partnership.
L. V. and Stella, who married in 1897, moved to the farm in 1899 and Raymond became the name of the town that grew up on and around their land. L. V. served as the town's first postmaster, first Northern Pacific Railway agent, and developed a water system for the town. The Raymonds donated land and their time to community projects, such as a playfield and the fire department. A bequest from the Raymonds established the Raymond Foundation in 1962 as a non-profit organization to fund scholarships and community development projects.
Building a River Town
Alexander C. Little (1860-1932) was also a partner in the land company. After a career in local and state politics that included serving as Aberdeen's mayor, helping elect Governor John R. Rogers, and serving on the State Fisheries Commission, in 1903 Little decided to shift to the private sector. According to Pacific County historian Douglas Allen, "Raymond was named for L. V. but from the beginning A.C. Little formed the character of the town" (Allen, 65).
According to Allen, Little contributed two key elements to the town's success. First, he recommended that the land company offer free riverfront lots to mills, thereby ensuring an economic foundation for the town. Second, Little brought Harry C. Heermans (1852-1943) into the partnership. Heermans's engineering background helped solve issues associated with building a town on a river. The sloughs that laced the land rose and fell with the tides, but uphill development would have taken mills too far from the riverfront. Besides, the hills surrounding the river junction rose abruptly and would have posed their own engineering challenges.
Other incorporators of the land company included J. B. Duryea, Winfield S. Cram (b.1866), and John T. Welsh (1866-1954). A second land company, the Great West Land Company, also formed in 1903, had some of the same investors and also worked to develop the town.
In 1903, the first mill, operated by Jacob Siler and Winfield Cram, began operations. Several more mills, including the West Coast Veneer & Manufacturing Company mill run by Little, followed and businesses grew up nearby.
On April 16, 1904, the Raymond Land Company filed a plat for the town of Raymond. The business district consisted of a store, a saloon, and a mess house that served mill workers. A drug store and hotel were coming soon.
Lots Sold by the Gallon
To allow people to cross the water-sodden landscape, the town constructed 2,900 feet of elevated wooden sidewalks. These sidewalks ran down either side of what would become 1st Street, which was really an open space onto which the buildings fronted. Additional wooden sidewalks crossed the void at regular intervals.
Lillian Smith (1875-1960), a teacher from Michigan who came to teach in Raymond for a year not long after the town's founding, remembered her first impressions of the town,
"At first I seemed to be crossing the river no matter what street I took. It was like losing oneself with Alice on the other side of the Looking Glass where you had to keep going in order to stand still, and vice versa. Imagine streets like long bridges built on piles driven into the slough (pronounced slu). Wooden railings on either side, and beyond these narrower wooden bridges of sidewalk width, these too with railings — a perfect maze of railings, necessary to keep careless pedestrians from falling into the slough" (Smith, 3).
Still, the town's location provided enough benefits to outweigh the difficulties of being what Smith called, "an amphibious town" (Smith, 6). It was located at the head of navigable waters, close to the bay and to the forests that fed its mills. It also had access to the Northern Pacific Railway, without having had to give up its waterfront lots the way South Bend had.
Navigation on the river depended on assistance from the Army Corps of Engineers. Early in its history Willapa Bay was known as Shoalwater Bay because of its many shallow areas. These made ideal oyster grounds, but limited ships' access to ports. The Corps, under the provisions of several different Rivers and Harbors Acts, had dredged the river up to Willapa City, just upstream from the Raymond townsite, and kept it clear of snags. The Corps also maintained a channel through the bar at the mouth of the bay.
Businesses besides lumber mills diversified the economy. In 1907 Stewart L. Dennis (1873-1952) and Perry W. Shepard (b. ca. 1871) formed a transfer company that would become an important retail business in Pacific County, now known as the Dennis Company, and John W. Dickie and his son, David, came to Raymond to establish a boatyard.
The Dickies had worked in the San Francisco Bay area and, according to local historian Ina E. Dickie, came to Raymond because the more-isolated Willapa Bay offered better access to lumber and to employees who accepted lower wages and had not yet formed unions. Dickie & Son built steamships -- the first was the Willapa -- at Raymond over the next several years. All were built for the coastwise lumber trade, which was booming following the 1906 earthquake and fires in San Francisco.
On August 6, 1907, voters approved a measure to incorporate the town of Raymond. A handful of residents resisted the town's boundaries because they included some outlying farms in anticipation of the town's growth.
Little served as the first mayor, an office he would hold for 10 of the next 11 years. When asked in 1910 to serve as president of the Southwest Washington Development Association, Little replied that he was "disqualified because of his partiality for the place where lots are sold by the gallon at high tide" ("Southwest Part of the State Unites").
A Lumber Town
The first council consisted of seven men: C. Frank Cathcart, president of Raymond Transfer and Storage and Northern Pacific agent, Winfield S. Cram, Timothy H. Donovan, superintendent of the Pacific & Eastern Railway and Sunset Timber Company, Floyd Lewis, real estate agent, Charles Myers, sawyer at the Siler Mill, L. V. Raymond, and Willard G. Shumway a clerk. P. T. Johnson served as the first treasurer and Neal Stupp as the clerk and secretary.
By 1910 the population had increased to 2,540, but that was just the start of the flood of new residents. In 1911, there were about 5,000 people in Raymond. They were needed for the kind of production boasted of by a promotional brochure from 1912. It lists the output of the towns mills for the previous year as 27,834,779 board feet of lumber, 226,712,250 shingles, 105 million berry baskets (made from veneer), and 33 million pieces of lath for plaster walls. The newcomers included business people, mill owners, mill workers, and loggers from all parts of the world.
Labor v. Capital
The 1910s, although economically prosperous, saw a series of disputes between labor unions and mill owners up and down the West Coast. Working conditions in the lumber industry were dismal and lumber workers struck for better wages and better logging camp conditions.
On March 25, 1912, mill workers in Raymond walked off the job to prevent the lumber companies from using their Raymond mills to replace lost production at Grays Harbor mills, where workers had begun a strike two weeks earlier. The town's business community's response was swift and severe. They held a meeting the second day of the strike. A. C. Little led the discussion, railing against the strike's organizers, the Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the Wobblies. The meeting participants decided that they should protect "any man who might want to work" ("Strikes Close Raymond Mills"). To that stated end, several committees formed to support the effort. Over the next several days the sheriff swore in 460 deputies to "protect property and the working men" ("Strikes Close Raymond Mills").
To prevent the mill workers from gathering, the city closed all the saloons and brothels for the duration of the strikes. Likewise, three "Socialists speakers," were arrested upon disembarking the Raymond depot ("Strikes Close Raymond Mills").
A few days later, on March 30, 1912, the mill owners blew their whistles for the start of work. Anyone who did not heed to the call found themselves and their families rounded up by about 200 men with rifles and shotguns and loaded onto a railroad car bound for Centralia. The South Bend Journal identified those who refused to work as Finns and Greeks.
The Greek workers were taken to Centralia, where the Greek consul from Tacoma, Hans Heldner, met them and protested their treatment. The Finns had been removed by boat to Nahcotta. From there they traveled on to Astoria where there was a large Finnish American community. After the strike ended, the South Bend Journal said that the Greek mill workers asked to return, but, "American flags have been hoisted on the mills and only Americans or civilized foreigners need apply" ("Agitators Banished from Raymond"). Other strikes would come to Raymond and labor unions led fights for improved safety, better conditions, and higher pay.
Despite labor problems, the mills kept prospering in Raymond. In 1912 there were 14 mills in operation. They used an average of 50 railroad cars full of logs from logging camps in the surrounding fills. The mills produced an average of 20 railroad cars a day of lumber and other forest products. These included shingles, cascara bark, used for medications, doors, and window frames.
Growth and Development
In 1912 the town also started to fill the sloughs that ran through town so residents could have actual streets and so that houses would not flood at high tide. In 1915 the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad began passenger and freight service between Raymond and Puget Sound. The mayors of Raymond and South Bend presented the railroad's representatives with a wooden key "symbolical [sic] of the freedom of Willapa Harbor" (Krantz). The train service was a vital link between the Willapa River towns and the interior of Washington. Not until 1917 would a road through the Willapa Hills open. The precursor of State Route 6, it was not reliably useable. It featured steep switchbacks and its gravel surface routinely suffered from water damage.
The late 1910s saw Raymond operating at full bore. Six saw mills, two veneer plants, a box factory, five shingle mills, and a woodworking plant were joined by the Sanderson & Porter shipyard, which employed 1,000 workers in building ships for the United States Navy during World War I. In the postwar era, the population dropped to about 4,500.
Port of Willapa Harbor
In 1928 residents of Raymond joined with South Bend to form the Port of Willapa Harbor, a public port district. The Port built a public dock on land between Raymond and South Bend that allowed smaller sawmills access to the river. This facilitated the transport of logs, which could be floated down the river from logging camps in the Willapa Hills, and the shipping of finished lumber. Before the public dock was completed in 1930, sawmills and other forest-products factories that did not have riverfront property had to send their goods to Grays Harbor or Puget Sound via the railroad, adding significantly to transport costs and time.
The Port dedicated the dock on October 8, 1930, and the city of South Bend dedicated a reconstructed city dock and improved slip. The same day, state highway officials led a celebration of the opening of Highway 101 between Aberdeen and Raymond-South Bend. For the first time travelers could follow a road through the Willapa Hills to the north of South Bend. It also connected Aberdeen with Ilwaco and the Long Beach Peninsula. This provided drivers with a direct route to the ferries that crossed the Columbia River to Astoria.
The Port's dock housed a sawmill, owned first by Ralph Tozier (1920-2005) and then Ben Cheney (1905-1971), who owned Cheney Lumber Company. According to Med Nicholson, writing in the Sou'wester, in 1945, Cheney was faced with a problem of wasted wood that resulted from cutting logs for ties. In order to square up the logs, large slabs were cut off each of four sides. Cheney had the insight that the slabs were eight feet long (the length of railroad ties) and house ceilings were eight and one-half feet tall. At the time home builders were buying studs in 10- and 12-foot lengths and cutting them down, also resulting in a lot of wasted wood. Cheney cut the slabs into a "Cheney Stud," what are now known as eight-foot two-by-four and sold them to home builders. Eight-foot ceilings became standard in houses, "putting to use an enormous amount of formerly wasted timber and incidentally saving American homeowners uncounted millions of dollars in heating expense" ("The Ben Cheney Story," 10).
Raymond's Great Depression
Unfortunately, the advantages presented by the new port and highway were hampered by the Great Depression. The economic downturn resulted in drastically decreased demand for lumber and Raymond residents struggled to find jobs. The decline of the Great Depression would reduce the town's population to 4,000. A steady decline after the Depression brought the population to just under 3,000 by 1990, where it has stayed since.
Though circumstances improved slightly when Weyerhaeuser purchased two mills in Raymond and one in South Bend and reorganized them in 1931, larger economic forces made it nearly impossible for commerce to continue in Raymond. In 1932 the Raymond Chamber of Commerce, faced with a near stoppage of business following the failure of the First Willapa Harbor National Bank, printed its own currency called "oyster money" to carry people over until real money became available again.
The Port of Willapa Harbor continued its efforts to improve the port's facilities. The Army Corps of Engineers carried out at federally funded dredging and channel straightening project on the river in 1936. The dredge spoils created Jensen Island and the new channel allowed deeper-draft boats to reach Raymond.
Logging and Lumber
A 1954 report by Nathaniel H. Engle and Delbert C. Hastings of the University of Washington's Bureau of Business Research, draws an interesting portrait of Pacific County's average male citizen as delineated by the 1950 Federal Census:
"Mr. Average Citizen of Pacific County, at the last census, 1950, was white and 33 years of age. He had had two years of high school education. He was employed as a laborer or an operative in the lumber industry. His income for the year was about $3,042. He was married and had two children. He lived in a 4 or 5 room house in good condition, with hot and cold running water, toilet, and bath. He had mechanical refrigeration, and a radio, but no central heating. His home was worth close to $4,000 and was owned clear of debt. Thus Pacific County's average citizen rates as a substantial American wage earner, somewhat better off, on the whole, than the average American, although not quite up to the average in Washington state" (Engle and Hastings, 5).
The lumber industry supported a significant number of these "average" residents. Where Grays Harbor had nearly cleared much its surrounding forest lands in the 1920s, Pacific County still had considerable standing timber in the 1950s. In 1951 more than 66 million board feet of logs and more than 90 million board feet of lumber left Raymond on ships and railroad cars. This may have been the result of a high concentration of ownership by large companies such as Weyerhaeuser, which owned 380 square miles (nearly half of the county), Crown-Zellerbach, owner of 60 square miles, and Rayonier, owner of 50 square miles.
Engle and Hastings described the logging companies' success as resulting from the companies' willingness to use sustained yield practices, rather than cutting the forests as quickly as the mills could cut the logs. Sustained yield did lead to more selective and more reseeding, but it did not maintain forests that could support diverse ecosystems because most of the reseeding was of single, productive species such as Douglas fir. Wildlife populations were further damaged by hunting programs designed to eliminate animals such as deer or bear that browsed on seedlings and new growth on older trees.
In 1954 and 1955, Weyerhaeuser carried out a two-part renovation of the old Willapa Lumber Company mill that it had acquired in 1931. First they replaced all the mill's facilities and then they rebuilt the mill itself. This mill, known as Mill W, remains in operation in 2010, the last softwood lumber mill in operation in Raymond,
In the 1970s the region saw another lumber boom. According to Richard Buck, of The Seattle Times, a new generation of baby boomers began buying houses, which increased the demand for lumber, leading to increased competition and prices. Prices reached $337 per 1,000 board feet.
The next decade, the declines in the national economy devastated the local economy rather than driving it. Prices dropped by two-thirds to $102 per 1,000 board feet in 1985. According to Buck this was due to a decline in housing starts and the increase in the value of the dollar and interest rates, which made Canadian lumber cheaper. Also, deregulation of the transportation industry increased the disadvantage West Coast lumber mills had compared to Southern and Midwestern lumber mills' proximity to East Coast markets.
In addition to the economic forces battering the lumber industry, in the late 1980s the local environment could no longer support the intense logging of the previous century. Historical overharvest and increased environmental regulations reduced the acreage of public forestland open to logging. In 1990, the Northern Spotted Owl was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. With the owl's listing, communities in Pacific County had to adjust to reduced logging and fewer jobs at the area's sawmills. The effects of the environmental regulations were compounded by plant modernization, which also led to fewer jobs in the mills. Many smaller mills could not compete with the larger companies' more efficient mills and a number went out of business.
The closure of the federal forests combined with changes in how Weyerhaeuser managed its lands and utilized mills in Pacific County led to the closure of numerous mills. This, in turn, led to fewer jobs in the forest products industry, as well as other sectors of the county's economy.
According to a Seattle Times article, "Some residents liken the area to a Third World nation, an underdeveloped colony whose resources are removed by 'foreign' corporations. Weyerhaeuser, they note, owns more than 50 percent of the land in Pacific County" (Hatch). Additionally, they accused Weyerhaeuser of using profits gained in Pacific County to build the very mills in the American South, where wages were lower, that undermined the viability of Raymond's mills. Although there is certainly a component of anger at outside companies taking a tremendous amount of natural resources out of the surrounding hills without investing a significant portion of the resulting profits in the local community, this sentiment also reflects the frustration that resulted from one company owning so much of the county's land and making decisions driven by the global market.
Strategies for Change
Raymond residents have created multiple strategies to address the changes to the regional economy. When one mill, the Mayr Brothers sawmill, closed in 1986, the Port of Willapa Harbor bought the land and buildings and leased them to Pacific Hardwoods. When that mill closed in 2001, a group of Raymond investors banded together and reopened it as Willapa Bay Hardwoods, employing 35 people. It planned to cut 17.5 million board feet a year, a far more sustainable volume than during the boom years.
The Port of Willapa Harbor has been involved in other economic development projects. The Port developed two industrial parks and received grants to construct light manufacturing buildings at one of the industrial parks and at the Port dock. A variety of industries have leased Port buildings, including a chitosan (a natural polymer produced from shellfish shells) producer, seafood processors, and an airplane prototype design company. Additionally, some of the buildings are used by retail stores, including a saw shop and a health club.
The Raymond community, in conjunction with the city government and the Port of Willapa Harbor, has developed attractions that will draw tourists to the region as a way to build the economy. The former railroad bed across the Willapa Hills has been turned into a hiking and biking trail. The city has begun redeveloping its riverfront and a regional consortium developed the Willapa Water Trail, which small boats can follow to explore Willapa Bay.
Over the past century the environment in and around Raymond has attracted people, many of whom have sought to remove as much of it as possible for sale in markets far from Pacific County. The town's future lies in a more sustainable use of those resources, including the intangible ones that have to be experienced in person.
Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.
It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.
There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.
Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.
In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.
In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.
In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.
Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.
Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.
The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932 and for a time he lived on The Green.
Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.
Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.
John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world, and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives
Design PSV VS 485 CD
Classification DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design,
Comf- V(3) C(3), E0, LfL, SF Oil rec,
d k+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
Builders Hellesøy Yard Løfallstrand
Port of reg. Fosnavaa g
Flag BAHAMAS
MMSI 311 071 800
IMO no 9470193
Delivery Date june 2010
Callsign C6ZY3
MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
Deadweight: 5 486 t
Lightship: 3 069 t
Classification
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2 0 0 5
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging
of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Base oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Pot.water: 1 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Drillwater/ballast: 2 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Methanol: 1 x 0-75 m3 7.2 bar
Special Product: 1 x 0-75 m3 10.8 bar
Slop: 2 x 100 m3/hrs 7,0 bar
ORO: 8 x 0-100 m3/bar 7.0 bar
Cement / Barite: 2 x 30 m3/h 6.5 bar
CARGO MANI FOLDS
Manifolds midships each side inside safe haven and aft starboard and port side.
MACHINERY / D/E-PROPULSION Resiliently Mounted
Main Engines: 4 x 1 901 kW Cat: Type 3 516 BTA
Main generators: 4 x AvK DSG 86 M1-4W. (2 028 kVA)
Harbour & Emergency Engine: 1 x 265 kW Volvo Penta D9A
Harbour & Emergency generator: 1 x 223 kVA. UC.M274H-1
690V; 60Hz
MAIN PROPULSION
Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi: 1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMPTION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3/ 24 hrs
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 / 24 hrs
BRIDGE DES I GN: NA U T - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
DP S Y S TEM DYNPOS A U TR
Kongsberg DP II K-Pos
1 x Fanbeam Kongsberg Lazer Mk4.2
1 x Radascan
2 x DPS Kongsberg 200CM
2 x Vindsensor Gill
1 x Roll & Pitch Sea Tex MRU2
1 x DP motion Sea Tex MRU5
THRUSTER CONTROL
Kongsberg C-Joy Constant
BRIDGE WATCH MONITORING SYSTEM
Kongsberg Integrated Bridge
ACCOMMODATION 23 PERSONS
Cabins 13 off single cabins
5 off double cabins
1 off office
1 off Hospital
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT
Safety Equipment: Acc to NMD/SOLAS for 23 persons
Life Raft: 4 x 25 persons Viking
Mob boat: Norsafe type 655 makojet, 10 persons
Mob boat davit: 1 x HLT 3 500 TTS
Survival suits: 23 persons
INCINERATOR
1 x Teamtec. 500 000 kcal/h for solid waste, plastic and sludge oil.
STEAM GENERATOR
1x 1 450 kW and el.heating 4 x 10 kW
ENTERTAINING EQUIPMENTS
1 x Sat. TV: Seatel
1 x Rack with 4 x Tuners and 1x DVD
1 x TV in all crew cabins
1 x TV in all lounges
1 x Radio / CD in all cabins
1 x Gymnasium w/Equipments
DEC K EQUIPMENT
Windless 2 x Windlass Mooring winch
Mooring 4 x Mooring lines 180 m each
Capstan 2 x 8t, NMD
Anchor chain 5225 m Ø 46 mm steel grade NVK3
Cargo securing winch 6 x 3t SWL. NMD CSW-3
Placed on each side Shelter Deck.
Tugger Winch 2 x SWL 15t, type TU-15
Deck Crane PS Basket transfer 1 x 3 t/13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPK 115
Deck Crane Stb. Cargo handling 1 x 3t /13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPT-80
ANTI ROLLING SYSTEM
2 x Stabilizing tanks. Passive anti.roll system. 439.9 m3 (aft) and 159.6 m3 (fwd)
Navigation Equipment
1x Furuno FAR-2837S. S-band radar (10 cm)
1 x Furuno FCR-2827. X-band radar (3 cm)
1 x Autopilot. Simrad AP-50
3 x Gyro Simrad GC-80
2 x GPS Furuno GP-150
1 x AIS Furuno FA-150
1 x Speed Log. Skipper EML224
1 x Echo Sounder Furuno FE-700
1 x Speed repeater Skipper IR300
ECDIS. Furuno Tecdis T-2137
VDR. Furuno VR-3000
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT GMDS S A 3
GSM Telephones. Samsung
Radar transponders. 1 x Jotron Tron SART
GMDSS hand portable VHF. Jotron Tron TR-20
UHF Portable radio. Motorola GP-340
Inmarsat-C. Furuno Felcom 15
Radio Station MF/HF. Furuno FS-2570C
Radio Station VHF/DSC. Furuno FM-8800S
DSC Terminal. MF/HF Furuno FS-2570C
NavTex. Furuno NX-700B
Manual EPIRB. Jotron 45 SX
Sarsat free float EPIRB. Jotron Tron 40S MkII
Internal Telephone System. Zenitel ACM-144-66/VO
Sound reception System. Vingtor
Fixed wiewlwaa terminal, Ericson G32/G36
Emergency Telephone System, Vingtor VSP-211-L
Public Announcement/GA Alarm: Zenitel VMA-2
There's a large amount of construction in the city of Sydney & surrounding area at the moment and 10x4 mixers are quite common- they run at 31tonnes gross on 5 axles.
Seen in the southern suburb of Caringbah, there aren't too many of these max weight International/Iveco ACCO models about- Kenworth seem to have cornered the market for recent deliveries to most concrete firms that I saw.
Vessel HAVILA CRUSADER (IMO: 9462770, MMSI: 259072000) is an offshore tug/supply ship built in 2010 and currently sailing under the flag of Norway. HAVILA CRUSADER has 85m length overall and beam of 20m. Her gross tonnage is 4366 tons
MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
C L A S S I F I CATION
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2005
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product
and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
MAIN PROPULSION Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi:1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMP TION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3 srh 42 /
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 srh 42 / B RIDGE DESIGN: NAUT - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
Boulevard Pereire | Avenue des Ternes 10/09/2015 14h29
A beautiful afternoon in September 2015 on the corner of the Boulevard Pereire and Avenue des Ternes in the 17ème arrondissement of Paris.
Boulevard Pereire
Boulevard Pereire is boulevard in the 17ème arrondissement of Paris in the quartiers Ternes, Plaine de Monceaux and Batignolles. Boulevard is formed by two lanes with trees located on either side of the Auteuil line (now RER C). The even side has a lenght of 2,260 meters and the odd side a length of 2,540 meters. This boulevard is created in 1853. Under the occupation, a name change was proposed by Captain Paul Sezille, director of the Institute for the Study of Jewish issues, because of the Jewish Pereire Brothers. He suggested that the SS Theodor Dannecker the name "Édouard Drumont" named after the famous anti-Semitic agitator.
Arrondissement: 17ème
Quartiers: Ternes, Plaine de Monceaux, Batignolles
Starts: rue Jouffroy-d'Abbans / rue de Saussure
Ends: avenue de la Grande-Armée / boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr
Length: côté impair: 2 540 meters, côté pair: 2 260 meters
[ Source and more Information: Wikipedia - Boulevard Pereire ]
Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.
It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.
There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.
Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.
In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.
In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.
In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.
Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.
Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.
The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932[53] and for a time he lived on The Green.
Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.
Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.
John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives
A trio of Alexander Fleck Pulpers, they look rather compact from below, but absolutely gigantic from above.
Inside the Ottawa Mill of the E.B. Eddy/Domtar number 10 and 11 paper mills.
This is from a copy of the Leyland Journal.
Voith 'Diwamatic' hydro-mechanical automatic transmission was featured in the Ford Diesel Powered drive of this Ritemixer 6-71/2 cu.yd. mixer/agitator unit. The equipment was fitted to a Guy 'Big J' 6x4 chassis cab, of which the power train comprised a Cummins V6-200 engine (192 bhp at 2,600 rpm), six speed gearbox, and double-drive axles with lockable inter-axle differential.
Mount Isa Township.
Like Broken Hill Mt Isa is an isolated outback town created because of a mineral discovery in 1923. It was part of the Cloncurry Shire council until it was declared a town with its own local government in 1963. Today it has a population of around 20,000 people but at its peak in the 1970s it had 34,000 people. The city area encompasses a huge unpopulated area making Mt Isa the second biggest city in Australia in land area! The town is basically a mining company town like Broken Hill but unlike Broken Hill and other mining centres in Australia it is such a long way from the coast and port facilities. No mining town is further from the nearest port than Mt Isa. The port of Townsville is almost 900 kms away and the capital Brisbane is over 1800 kms away.
Pastoralism came to the Mt Isa region in the 1860s and 1870s when much of outback QLD was occupied by graziers. The region was known for its mining as the Cloncurry copper and goldfields were not that far away and to the south of Mt Isa was the Duchess copper mine and township. (In 1966 the only major source of phosphate was discovered at Duchess mine.) The rocky outcrops and ranges of the area were attractive to prospectors hoping for another great mineral find after the great finds at Cloncurry in 1872.
An itinerant mineral prospector named John Campbell Miles was camped on the Leichhardt River looking at rock samples in late 1923. He found promising samples and took them to the government assayer in Cloncurry discovering that his samples were 50% to 78% pure lead with copper as well. The QLD government investigated the deposits further as Miles named the field Mt Isa. Businessmen in Cloncurry saw the potential of the area for mining. In January 1924 the Mount Isa Mines Ltd Company was floated beginning their search for investment capital to develop the site. Douglas McGillivray of Cloncurry was a major investor and his funds permitted the new company to acquire mining leases for the relevant areas. Miners flocked to the area and by the end of 1924 a small town had emerged with tents, and a few wooden buildings from other towns in the region. Mt Isa then had a school room, a water supply from the Leichhardt River and stores, hotels and an open air picture theatre!
But it was to take another 10 years before large scale mining began. MIM (Mt Isa Mines) continued to purchases additional mining leases and they searched overseas for capital as the first leases cost them £245,000. On top for this was the cost of underground explorations, drilling, metallurgical tests and plant construction. By 1932 MIM had spent around £4 million with no production, returns or profits. But the size and potential of this project was not underestimated by anyone. In 1929 the QLD government extended the railway from Cloncurry ( it reached there in 1910) via Duchess to Mt Isa. By this time the population was around 3,000 people. Mined ore was carted by road to the smelter in Cloncurry. The township had progressed too with a town planned by the Company with tree lined streets on the river, with a dam for a water supply on Rifle Creek. The mine operations were on the western side of the River and the town and businesses on the eastern side of the River. The Catholic Church opened in 1929 and the Company built a fine small hospital for the town. As the Great Depression hit MIM stopped spending on the development on the town and concentrated on the mines. By this time profits were repaying interest on the loans but the company did not return a dividend on investments until 1947.
The fortunes of Mt Isa Mines changed in the 1930s as Julius Kruttschnitt, a native of New Orleans was appointed mine manager in 1930. He obtained additional financial investment in MIM from the American Smelting and Refining Company and the first reruns on lead production occurred in 1931. By 1937 under Kruttschnitt’s guidance the almost bankrupt company of 1930 was returning profits by 1936. This manager was known for always wearing a collar, tie and suit regardless of the Mt Isa temperatures. He played sport with the miners, his wife contributed to town events and he worked on better housing for the workers. He retired from the MIM in 1953 but remained on the Company Board until 1967. At this time Mt Isa Mines became the largest single export earner for Australia and MIM was the largest mining company in Australia. Kruttschnitt died in 1974 in Brisbane. He received many Australiana and international awards for his work in mining engineering and metallurgy. He really put Mt Isa on the map.
During World War Two the mine concentrated on copper and ceased lead and silver operations as demanded by the war needs. Until this time the mine had concentrated on lead production. Labour shortages were crippling during the War years but the mine continued. Many American troops were stationed here too and the Mt Isa Hospital had an underground hospital built in case of air raids. No bombing attacks were experienced and the hospital was mainly used by nurses on night duty catching up on some sleep in the relative cool underground but the hospital still remains and is operated by the National Trust. It is unlikely that we will have free time when the underground hospital is open to visit it.
After World War Two the fortunes of Mt Isa changed remarkably. Lead prices trebled after the War from £25 per ton to £91 per ton and hence the MIM was able to pay its first dividends in 1947. Workers received a lead bonus to make their wages higher and about three times the amount of average wages in Brisbane. The population of the town doubled in the early 1950s just before Kruttschnitt retired from around 3,000 to over 7,000. It doubled again by 1961 when the population reached 13,000 and it doubled again by 1971 when it reached 26,000. New facilities came with the bigger population- an Olympic size swimming pool, some air conditioning in some buildings, bitumen roads, less dust, more hotels and employee clubs, including the Marie Kruttschnitt Ladies Club! Miners’ wages doubled during the Korean War. It was during this period the rail line from Mt Isa to Townsville became the profitable ever for the Queensland Railways. It was the profits from this line that led Queensland Rail to develop and rebuilt other lines and introduce the electric Tilt train etc. MIM discovered more and more ore deposits and firstly doubled and then trebled production in the 1950s. Mt Isa surpassed Broken Hill as Australia’s biggest and wealthiest mine.
New suburbs were built by MIM, the town became the centre of local government and the Company built a new dam for a water supply on Lake Moondarra with importer sand for a lake shore beach. As more stores opened in Mt Isa Mount Isa mines closed its cooperative store. A large new hospital was opened in 1960; the Royal Flying Doctor Service transferred its headquarters from Cloncurry to Mt Isa; and the town had a new air of prosperity and modernity. The calm soon broke. There was a major split between the Australian Workers Union, an Americana union agitator called Patrick Mackie and the Mine management over pay and profit sharing ideas. All work at the mine stopped during a bitter dispute that lasted eight months. The Liberal Country Party government which included Joh Bjelke Petersen (he was a minster and not premier in 1964) used the police to restrict the activities of the AWU and the Mackie Unionists. Many miners left the town as they could not survive without work and it took some time after the dispute resolution for the mine to restart full operations. Mining restarted in 1965.
Ten years (1974) later MIM financially assisted with the construction and opening of the new Civic Centre. Mt Isa’s population reached its maximum of around 34,000 and the future looked bright. As the ore quality declined the town population declined but MIM found new ways of extracting copper and lead from lower grade ore. The city continued to exist until MIM sold utu to Xstrata in 2003. Since the then town population has been slowly increasing. The local federal MP is Bob Katter who is proposing to create a new conservative party for the next federal election.
Mount Isa Mines Today.
In the 2001 Census over 20% of Mt Isa’s workforce was employed in mining. The town mainly survives because of the Xstrata Mines which took over the previous company, Mount Isa Mines (MIM) Ltd in 2003. Xstrata has invested $570 million in the mines since its takeover. Xstrata today employs over 3,000 staff and 1,000 contractors in the mine. Xstrata is a large multinational mining company with its headquarters in Switzerland and its head office in London. It has mines in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. It miens coal, and copper primarily in Australia at places as far apart as Mt Isa, McArthur River zinc mine in the NT, Bulga coal mine and Anvil Hill coal mine in NSW and Cosmos nickel mine in WA.
Apart from the mines itself Mt Isa has other infrastructure: a power station (oil fired); an experimental mine dam; and various buildings and works such as the winding plant, shaft headframe etc. Most importantly for the township it also has the copper smelter works. The ore is further processed in the Townsville smelter after transportation to the coast. The Mt Isa smelter produced over 200,000 tons of copper in 2010 and smelted lead and the concentrator refines the ores of copper, zinc, lead and silver. Across all its mines in Australia Xstrata employs almost 10,000 people second only to its workforce in Africa. Xstrata also operates the Ernest Henry copper, gold and magnetite mines 38 kms north of Cloncurry. This group of mines is expected to employ around 500 people on a long term basis. All the ore from these mines is treated in the concentrator and the smelter in Mt Isa. The Isa smelter and concentrator also handles the silver, lead and zinc from the George Fisher( Hilton) mines 20 kms south of Mt Isa. The stack from the smelter, erected in 1978, stands 270 metres high and can be seen from 40 kms away.
Outback at Isa Discovery Centre and Riversleigh Fossil Centre.
This centre was opened in 2003. The Riversleigh Fossil Centre moved into the complex; a purpose built mine called the Hard Times mine was dug and opened to give visitors an underground mine experience; and the Isa Experience Gallery opened with an Outback Park outside. The complex also operates the Visitor Information Centre. The Isa Experience Gallery uses multimedia approaches to bring the history and Aboriginal culture and mining background of Mount Isa to life.
Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site is 250kms north of Mt Isa on the Gregory River on an isolated cattle station. The fossil site covers over 10,000 hectares and is now included in the Lawn Hill national Park. It has been a protected site since 1983 and was declared a World Heritage site of international significance in 1994. But why? Sir David Attenborough explains:
Riversleigh is the worlds’ richest mammal fossil site dating from 15-25 million years ago. The massive number of fossils discovered here are generally imbedded in hard limestone which was formed when freshwater pools solidified. This happened at time when this part of Australia was a rich rainforest area, rather than the semi-arid grassland that it is now. The fossils cover a period of 20 million years helping scientists understand how Australia, its climate and animal species changed. Most of what is known about Australia’s mammals over 20 million years was learnt from bone discoveries at Riversleigh, and the most significant ones were found in just one hour!
It is the mammals that we find the most fascinating today with large mega-fauna from prehistoric eras the most amazing. But there have also been finds of birds, frogs, fish, turtles and reptiles. The finds have included: the ancestors of Tasmanian Tigers (thylacines); large meat eating kangaroos; huge crocodiles; giant flightless birds; the ancestors of our platypus (monotreme); ancient koalas and wombats; diprotodon; giant marsupial moles and bandicoots; around 40 species of bats; and marsupial “lions”. The site has yielded a complete skull and teeth of a giant platypus and the various thylacines have added to our previous knowledge of just one- the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
Scientists have dug over 250 fossil rich sites at Riversleigh finding hundreds of new species. Who has heard of: dasyurids, cuscuses, ilariids and wynyardiids? I have no idea what they were. Other strange discoveries have been: 'Thingodonta' (Yalkaparidon) - an odd marsupial with skull and teeth like no other living marsupial; Fangaroo- a small grass eating kangaroo species with giant teeth; the Giant Rat-kangaroo, (Ekaltadeta) that ate meat( perhaps the Fangaroo); and the Emuary, (Emuarius) which was half emu and half cassowary in features. The Fossil Centre in Mt Isa has some reconstructions of some of these fossil animals of prehistoric times.
Kodak Ektar 100 | Mamiya RZ67 | negative processed at home and photographed with my Sony A7R-iii
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This is a quick summary of my observations using Negative Film Lab to perform the surprisingly non-trivial conversion from color negative to finished image.
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1. TLDR; I was impressed enough after playing with Negative Lab Pro this morning I purchased a license. That says it all.
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2. The film was processed by me back in May 2018. I had not yet thrown those twirling stick agitators into the recycle bin yet, so the film is unevenly developed. There was more activity at the edges of the strip than the middle because the edges got exposure to fresher chemistry. TLDR? Inversion is the only way to agitate. YMMV. This is what works for me. Inversion agitation totally stopped the uneven development problem.
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3. Compared to my prior workflow using Silverfast, this plugin is a breeze. I can stay in one program all the way from camera raw file to print ready image file. I’ll compare workflows in the comment area so you can decide for yourself.
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4. Digitizing the image consists of carefully doing a macro photo of the negative on a light table. Any modern DSLR or mirrorless camera will work, but if you plan to print big, the 40+ megapixel cameras are ideal. A quality macro lens is also vital, as is a means of securely mounting everything. I use heavy duty woodworking clamps from Lowes to mount a Kirk ballhead to a sturdy workbench; thinking hardware store rather than camera store saves you a lot of cash! A scanning mask is strongly advised as stray light can enter the edges of the film. Reflections can also be an issue, as can lens flare. A mask helps with all of these. Stray light will wreck your results.
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5. Follow the instructions that come with the Negative Lab plugin. If you do it right, the end result will be an image which requires only minor corrections and spotting in Photoshop/Lightroom to finish it off.
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I’ll let the image speak for itself. Because of the ridiculous amount of compression Instagram uses, I will be posting these images to my Flickr account as well. The link is in my bio. More info in the comments area.
I want it to be known that I am not trying to sell anybody anything. One of the biggest problems for a film shooter in 2019 is how to actually do something useful with the film once you’ve shot it and developed it. Quality scanners are expensive and slow. Hiring a company to handle the job is also expensive and slow, plus it takes the photographer out of the loop as far as the overall look of the resultant images. Color negative scanning offers a massive amount of latitude for one’s artistic vision, you don’t really want to leave that in the hands of someone else.
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After studying every affordable option for scanning medium format film, I concluded that scanning with a high megapixel digital camera was the best option. Once everything is set up, it’s undeniably fast, much faster than high-quality medium format scanners. As for results, if you carefully scan a 6 x 9 negative (or positive for that matter), you end up with a 42 megapixel image in the case of the Sony A7R-iii that I use. That’s more than enough information to create high-quality 24” x 36“ prints.
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Honestly, the resolution isn’t the problem. The problem has always been converting a color negative into a color positive.
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Last winter when I began seriously looking into this problem, I tried everything that was on the market at that time. I quickly settled on Silverfast as the best of a not so perfect lot. It wasn’t perfect because the software is expensive, the user interface is downright hostile, and the whole thing feels like a Windows 98 era program ready to crash and burn at any given moment.
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Even with the issues it has, Silverfast undeniably does produce quality output. At a license cost of $250 for a basic version and $400 for one that actually doesn’t go out of its way to slow you down at every opportunity, it had damned well better at least deliver good output. So why am I so excited about this new Lightroom plugin? Take a look at the workflow for the two solutions:
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1. Copy raw files from memory card into temp directory on computer
2. Install the Adobe DNG converter
3. Install MakeTiff from color perfect
4. Convert your camera raw files into linear tiff files
5. Import linear tiff files into Silverfast
6. Perform the necessary adjustments to each photograph inside of Silverfast to get optimal output
7. Kick off Silverfast batch job to create positive tiff files
8. Import tiff files into Lightroom (jumping into Photoshop as needed for heavy lifting) for cataloging, dust spotting, cropping, and creation of final output files
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Negative Lab Pro
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1. Import raw files from memory card into Lightroom
2. Crop images and perform a white balance with the eyedropper on orange mask as instructed in the Negative Lab Pro video
3. Start the plug-in and again follow the directions in the instructional video
4. Perform final edits such as dust spotting, color tweaking, cropping and so on. Edit in Photoshop for heavy lifting tasks like content aware fill. Export final output files from Lightroom as needed.
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It’s up to you, both methods work just fine. I am keeping Silverfast around because there are a few tasks it excels at, such as getting optimum results from seriously expired film. That said, with excellent image quality plus the speed and simplicity advantages, the Negative Lab Pro plug-in will be taking over my medium format camera scanned work.
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I hope this information helps you enjoy the art of analog photography as much as I do.
MV “SOLVIK SUPPLIER”
SHIP DESIGN PSV VS 485 CD
CLASSIFICATION DNV
BUILDER SEVERNAYA YARD ST PETERSBURG, HULL NO 696
PORT OF REGISTRY NASSAU
FLAG BAHAMAS
MMSI 311 070 200
IMO NUMBER 95 89 607
DELIVERY NOVEMBER 2011
CALL SIGN C6ZW5
MACHINERY AND PROPELLER PLANTS
Main Engines/Generators : 4 x 1825 kw CAT 3516B-DSG
Emergency Generator: 1 x 200 kw Volvo Penta D9A
Main Propulsion: 2 x 2300 kw SteerProp SP 35 CRP
FWD Azimuth: 1 x 880 kw Brunvoll CPP
FWD Tunnel Thrusters: 2 x 1000 kw Brunvoll CPP
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2005
Deck Cargo: 2 800 Tons
Deck Area: 1000 m2 wood covered deck
Deck Strength: 10 Tons/m2
Fuel Oil: 903 m3, Flowmeter with Printer
Fuel Transfer Capasity: 2 x 150 m3/hour
Liquid Mud (SG 2.8): 703 m3, 4 x 100 m3/hour
Agitators: Fitted in each tank
Brine (SG 2.5): 418 m3, 2x 150 m3/hour
Base Oil: 203 m3, 2 x 100 m3/hour
Pot Water: 1007 m3, 1 x 150 m3/hour
Drill Water/Ballast: 2470 m3, 2 x 150 m3/hour
Methanol: 145 m3, 1 x 75 m3/hour
Special Products: 146 m3, 1 x 75 m3/hour
Slop: 186 m3, 2 x 100 m3/hour
ORO: 1803 m3, 8 x 100 m3/hour
Cement/Barite/Bentonit: 440 m3, 2 x 30 m3/hour
Dispersant: 34 m3
Lubrication oil: 35 m3
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Icinerator: Saniterm SH 20 SM/SR
Steam Generator: Parat Halvorsen AS 1600 kw
Hot Liquid Cargo Tank: 1 x 146 m3
Tank Cleaning: Per Gjerdrum AS
Special Cargo Tanks: Stainless Steel Tanks for Methanol
Inert Gas System: N2 Generator, Membrane Separation
Cargo Manifolds: Amidships and Aft each side
inside “Safe haven”
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Bridge Consoles: Aft, Fwd and both Wings
Operation Control Office: Located on Bridge
Autopilot: Furuno AP 50
DP System: Kongsberg K Pos DP 2
Joystick System: Kongsberg C-Joy Constant
DP Motion System 1: Sea Tex MRU 2
DP Motion System 1: Sea Tex MRU 5
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Echo Sounder: Furuno FE 700
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Speed Repeater: Skipper IR 300
VDR: Furuno VR 3000
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Full speed: 15.0 knots 28.0 m3/24 hours
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DP operation: 5.6 m3/24 hours at position keeping
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1 x TTS Marine GPK knuckle crane, SWL 3 tons/13 meter
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6 x Cargo Securing Winches, NDM SWL 3 tons
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Ship Certificate: 23 persons
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Navtex: Furuno NX-700 B
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DSC Terminal: Furuno FS 2570 C
AIS: Furuno FA 150
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EPIRB Free Float: Jotron Tron 40 S Mk II
Radio Station: SSB, MF, HF, Furuno FS 1570
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Intercom: Zenitel ACM 144 66/VO
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Single Cabins: 15 with bathrooms
Double Cabins: 4 with bathrooms
Hospital: 1 Highest standard
Office: 1 fully outfitted
Day Room: 2 comfortable outfitted
Gymnasium: 1 fully outfitted
Entertainment: In Day Rooms and all Cabins
Antiroll Tank: 1 x 440 m3 + 1 x 160
Mount Isa Township.
Like Broken Hill Mt Isa is an isolated outback town created because of a mineral discovery in 1923. It was part of the Cloncurry Shire council until it was declared a town with its own local government in 1963. Today it has a population of around 20,000 people but at its peak in the 1970s it had 34,000 people. The city area encompasses a huge unpopulated area making Mt Isa the second biggest city in Australia in land area! The town is basically a mining company town like Broken Hill but unlike Broken Hill and other mining centres in Australia it is such a long way from the coast and port facilities. No mining town is further from the nearest port than Mt Isa. The port of Townsville is almost 900 kms away and the capital Brisbane is over 1800 kms away.
Pastoralism came to the Mt Isa region in the 1860s and 1870s when much of outback QLD was occupied by graziers. The region was known for its mining as the Cloncurry copper and goldfields were not that far away and to the south of Mt Isa was the Duchess copper mine and township. (In 1966 the only major source of phosphate was discovered at Duchess mine.) The rocky outcrops and ranges of the area were attractive to prospectors hoping for another great mineral find after the great finds at Cloncurry in 1872.
An itinerant mineral prospector named John Campbell Miles was camped on the Leichhardt River looking at rock samples in late 1923. He found promising samples and took them to the government assayer in Cloncurry discovering that his samples were 50% to 78% pure lead with copper as well. The QLD government investigated the deposits further as Miles named the field Mt Isa. Businessmen in Cloncurry saw the potential of the area for mining. In January 1924 the Mount Isa Mines Ltd Company was floated beginning their search for investment capital to develop the site. Douglas McGillivray of Cloncurry was a major investor and his funds permitted the new company to acquire mining leases for the relevant areas. Miners flocked to the area and by the end of 1924 a small town had emerged with tents, and a few wooden buildings from other towns in the region. Mt Isa then had a school room, a water supply from the Leichhardt River and stores, hotels and an open air picture theatre!
But it was to take another 10 years before large scale mining began. MIM (Mt Isa Mines) continued to purchases additional mining leases and they searched overseas for capital as the first leases cost them £245,000. On top for this was the cost of underground explorations, drilling, metallurgical tests and plant construction. By 1932 MIM had spent around £4 million with no production, returns or profits. But the size and potential of this project was not underestimated by anyone. In 1929 the QLD government extended the railway from Cloncurry ( it reached there in 1910) via Duchess to Mt Isa. By this time the population was around 3,000 people. Mined ore was carted by road to the smelter in Cloncurry. The township had progressed too with a town planned by the Company with tree lined streets on the river, with a dam for a water supply on Rifle Creek. The mine operations were on the western side of the River and the town and businesses on the eastern side of the River. The Catholic Church opened in 1929 and the Company built a fine small hospital for the town. As the Great Depression hit MIM stopped spending on the development on the town and concentrated on the mines. By this time profits were repaying interest on the loans but the company did not return a dividend on investments until 1947.
The fortunes of Mt Isa Mines changed in the 1930s as Julius Kruttschnitt, a native of New Orleans was appointed mine manager in 1930. He obtained additional financial investment in MIM from the American Smelting and Refining Company and the first reruns on lead production occurred in 1931. By 1937 under Kruttschnitt’s guidance the almost bankrupt company of 1930 was returning profits by 1936. This manager was known for always wearing a collar, tie and suit regardless of the Mt Isa temperatures. He played sport with the miners, his wife contributed to town events and he worked on better housing for the workers. He retired from the MIM in 1953 but remained on the Company Board until 1967. At this time Mt Isa Mines became the largest single export earner for Australia and MIM was the largest mining company in Australia. Kruttschnitt died in 1974 in Brisbane. He received many Australiana and international awards for his work in mining engineering and metallurgy. He really put Mt Isa on the map.
During World War Two the mine concentrated on copper and ceased lead and silver operations as demanded by the war needs. Until this time the mine had concentrated on lead production. Labour shortages were crippling during the War years but the mine continued. Many American troops were stationed here too and the Mt Isa Hospital had an underground hospital built in case of air raids. No bombing attacks were experienced and the hospital was mainly used by nurses on night duty catching up on some sleep in the relative cool underground but the hospital still remains and is operated by the National Trust. It is unlikely that we will have free time when the underground hospital is open to visit it.
After World War Two the fortunes of Mt Isa changed remarkably. Lead prices trebled after the War from £25 per ton to £91 per ton and hence the MIM was able to pay its first dividends in 1947. Workers received a lead bonus to make their wages higher and about three times the amount of average wages in Brisbane. The population of the town doubled in the early 1950s just before Kruttschnitt retired from around 3,000 to over 7,000. It doubled again by 1961 when the population reached 13,000 and it doubled again by 1971 when it reached 26,000. New facilities came with the bigger population- an Olympic size swimming pool, some air conditioning in some buildings, bitumen roads, less dust, more hotels and employee clubs, including the Marie Kruttschnitt Ladies Club! Miners’ wages doubled during the Korean War. It was during this period the rail line from Mt Isa to Townsville became the profitable ever for the Queensland Railways. It was the profits from this line that led Queensland Rail to develop and rebuilt other lines and introduce the electric Tilt train etc. MIM discovered more and more ore deposits and firstly doubled and then trebled production in the 1950s. Mt Isa surpassed Broken Hill as Australia’s biggest and wealthiest mine.
New suburbs were built by MIM, the town became the centre of local government and the Company built a new dam for a water supply on Lake Moondarra with importer sand for a lake shore beach. As more stores opened in Mt Isa Mount Isa mines closed its cooperative store. A large new hospital was opened in 1960; the Royal Flying Doctor Service transferred its headquarters from Cloncurry to Mt Isa; and the town had a new air of prosperity and modernity. The calm soon broke. There was a major split between the Australian Workers Union, an Americana union agitator called Patrick Mackie and the Mine management over pay and profit sharing ideas. All work at the mine stopped during a bitter dispute that lasted eight months. The Liberal Country Party government which included Joh Bjelke Petersen (he was a minster and not premier in 1964) used the police to restrict the activities of the AWU and the Mackie Unionists. Many miners left the town as they could not survive without work and it took some time after the dispute resolution for the mine to restart full operations. Mining restarted in 1965.
Ten years (1974) later MIM financially assisted with the construction and opening of the new Civic Centre. Mt Isa’s population reached its maximum of around 34,000 and the future looked bright. As the ore quality declined the town population declined but MIM found new ways of extracting copper and lead from lower grade ore. The city continued to exist until MIM sold utu to Xstrata in 2003. Since the then town population has been slowly increasing. The local federal MP is Bob Katter who is proposing to create a new conservative party for the next federal election.
Mount Isa Mines Today.
In the 2001 Census over 20% of Mt Isa’s workforce was employed in mining. The town mainly survives because of the Xstrata Mines which took over the previous company, Mount Isa Mines (MIM) Ltd in 2003. Xstrata has invested $570 million in the mines since its takeover. Xstrata today employs over 3,000 staff and 1,000 contractors in the mine. Xstrata is a large multinational mining company with its headquarters in Switzerland and its head office in London. It has mines in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. It miens coal, and copper primarily in Australia at places as far apart as Mt Isa, McArthur River zinc mine in the NT, Bulga coal mine and Anvil Hill coal mine in NSW and Cosmos nickel mine in WA.
Apart from the mines itself Mt Isa has other infrastructure: a power station (oil fired); an experimental mine dam; and various buildings and works such as the winding plant, shaft headframe etc. Most importantly for the township it also has the copper smelter works. The ore is further processed in the Townsville smelter after transportation to the coast. The Mt Isa smelter produced over 200,000 tons of copper in 2010 and smelted lead and the concentrator refines the ores of copper, zinc, lead and silver. Across all its mines in Australia Xstrata employs almost 10,000 people second only to its workforce in Africa. Xstrata also operates the Ernest Henry copper, gold and magnetite mines 38 kms north of Cloncurry. This group of mines is expected to employ around 500 people on a long term basis. All the ore from these mines is treated in the concentrator and the smelter in Mt Isa. The Isa smelter and concentrator also handles the silver, lead and zinc from the George Fisher( Hilton) mines 20 kms south of Mt Isa. The stack from the smelter, erected in 1978, stands 270 metres high and can be seen from 40 kms away.
Outback at Isa Discovery Centre and Riversleigh Fossil Centre.
This centre was opened in 2003. The Riversleigh Fossil Centre moved into the complex; a purpose built mine called the Hard Times mine was dug and opened to give visitors an underground mine experience; and the Isa Experience Gallery opened with an Outback Park outside. The complex also operates the Visitor Information Centre. The Isa Experience Gallery uses multimedia approaches to bring the history and Aboriginal culture and mining background of Mount Isa to life.
Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site is 250kms north of Mt Isa on the Gregory River on an isolated cattle station. The fossil site covers over 10,000 hectares and is now included in the Lawn Hill national Park. It has been a protected site since 1983 and was declared a World Heritage site of international significance in 1994. But why? Sir David Attenborough explains:
Riversleigh is the worlds’ richest mammal fossil site dating from 15-25 million years ago. The massive number of fossils discovered here are generally imbedded in hard limestone which was formed when freshwater pools solidified. This happened at time when this part of Australia was a rich rainforest area, rather than the semi-arid grassland that it is now. The fossils cover a period of 20 million years helping scientists understand how Australia, its climate and animal species changed. Most of what is known about Australia’s mammals over 20 million years was learnt from bone discoveries at Riversleigh, and the most significant ones were found in just one hour!
It is the mammals that we find the most fascinating today with large mega-fauna from prehistoric eras the most amazing. But there have also been finds of birds, frogs, fish, turtles and reptiles. The finds have included: the ancestors of Tasmanian Tigers (thylacines); large meat eating kangaroos; huge crocodiles; giant flightless birds; the ancestors of our platypus (monotreme); ancient koalas and wombats; diprotodon; giant marsupial moles and bandicoots; around 40 species of bats; and marsupial “lions”. The site has yielded a complete skull and teeth of a giant platypus and the various thylacines have added to our previous knowledge of just one- the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
Scientists have dug over 250 fossil rich sites at Riversleigh finding hundreds of new species. Who has heard of: dasyurids, cuscuses, ilariids and wynyardiids? I have no idea what they were. Other strange discoveries have been: 'Thingodonta' (Yalkaparidon) - an odd marsupial with skull and teeth like no other living marsupial; Fangaroo- a small grass eating kangaroo species with giant teeth; the Giant Rat-kangaroo, (Ekaltadeta) that ate meat( perhaps the Fangaroo); and the Emuary, (Emuarius) which was half emu and half cassowary in features. The Fossil Centre in Mt Isa has some reconstructions of some of these fossil animals of prehistoric times.
David Seagraves bas relief description of the Oct. 12, 1898 massacre.
The workers stand strong against the underhanded tactics of the coal company, the only company to deny the basic gains won across the country. Miners gathered in the field across from the raised rail bed and the high walls of the company stockade. Rising up for workers rights and dignity, with only some pistols, hunting rifles, and whatever was at hand. The battle lasted 10 minutes and left the field stained with blood. 5 company hired guns and 7 miners dead, up to 40 injured with gunshot wounds. No strikebreakers on the train were shot, The state was ourtaged. Ultimately the strike was won and the principles disgraced.
The monument depicts a defiant agitating Mother Jones who was not physically present, along with the flamboyant agitator Alexander "General" Bradley who had lead a march of miners from Mt Olive to join in support, and two union leaders Ed Cahill and John Hunter.
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Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.
It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.
There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.
Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.
In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.
In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.
In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.
Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.
Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.
The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932 and for a time he lived on The Green.
Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.
Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.
John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world, and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives
Support fighters/shuttles- these are the small run-about ships. Also can provide fighter support for the Agitator if needed.
Museum of Modern Art - MoMA
Exhibition 'Engineer, Agitator, Constructor - The Artist Reinvented'
series 'Six Prints' by 'Liubov Popova' (ca. 1917-1919)
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lets just listen in to what some of the people are talking about, eavesdropping a bit!
The City Guards!
...and then the sergeant said, so you think this is guarding the entrance I should send you to Kislev for education and replace you with an infant girl squire, he would do a better job than you!
- Ha ha ha ha!
-Ha. ha, ha he is right you know!
The husband and wife of the cottage:
-...now dearest fairest, best old darling, don´t forget the turnips this time, I can´t make soup on water alone...
- Oh Sweat husband of mine! Well a water soup would at least be a dish you couldn´t ruin, I should start cooking because me and the children are sick of shoveling charcoal in to our digestions systems, we are not steam engines you know!
The Forestman and the outlaw soldier:
- this part of the Kingdom is so compliant and the working class here are to happy, after we have defeated the barbarians we should hide out in the forest here and open the peasantries eyes, I know a great agitator Vlad Marxius if we bring him here he might open their eyes!
the Blond dignitary lady:
(she is talking to her self)
My Husband suspects that I have a lover, and yes he is right, but I love them both,what should do is to introduce them to each others and get some love-potion from the local mage and lure it in to them so they would fall in love and then perhaps I could have two husbands, I better talk to the Cleric if that is possible in my religion?
Happy Labor Day to all and may you have a happy, relaxing and safe weekend. This being Labor Day weekend; those who know me, know I can’t let it slip by without talking about labor Issues. This topic affects millions of Americans every week. Many are too intimidated, too ashamed of the stigma and afraid of losing their means of support, to speak out. Folks I’m talking about Workplace Mobbing.
Here in Yosemite National Park (like many large staffed workplaces) the perpetrators are given a free pass. You see Yosemite’s Superintendent and his Office is not held accountable. After three requests from the Department of the Interior, they still didn’t respond; folks this is called plausible deniability. Our government has it perfected. I’ve gone to the Superintendents office requesting to address the Toxic work and living environment here in Yosemite. I was met by a woman who wouldn’t tell me her last name, while an armed Law Enforcement Officer worked his way behind me. He stood there the whole time in an attempt to intimidate me. This after the Chairmen of our Oversite Committee said Yosemite was TOXIC, over three years ago.
If you would indulge me; take a few minutes and follow me through a workday here in Yosemite National Park:
I’ll start with about 2-3 hours’ sleep; you see my neighbors are allowed to slam doors, stomp down the hall, at my door and anything else to make enough noise; to harass and keep me sleep deprived. (I work and live here so I get the harassment at home too). I get to work and I have 1 or 2 employees blocking me at the time clock. They take their time to clock in, I try but the time clock rejects me because management didn’t put me I the computer (I’ve been here almost 10 years). I have to find a manager to clock in; this causes me to be late and we are paid right to the minute. I wonder how much payroll is saved by thousands of employees being screwed out of a few minutes each day? As I walk through my work area I am blocked repeatedly by the 20 something crowd. If I get to close to someone there’s a good chance I’m elbowed. I walk around looking for the equipment I need to perform my daily task; it is hidden by my coworkers. I go through the day doing my assigned duties, often to repeat them because of my coworkers. As I go to take items to certain areas; my coworkers will lock doors so I can’t go through. These are doors meant to be unlocked and are, until I need to go through them. I go to take my first break and am mobbed by obnoxious coworkers; to deprive me of any piece and relaxation. If I’m outside; I’m mobbed by smokers. They don’t care if they expose our guest and children; as long as my lungs are filled with second hand smoke.
I go back in my building, start picking up after my coworkers again. I walk to my equipment room and am blocked by a cart that is intentionally placed in an aisle; there’s a coworker blocking the little area left for me to walk through (remember; if I get to close I could get elbowed). I get to my equipment room to be intentionally crowded by a coworker. This person will do everything they can to get in my way as I try to gather what I need.
I go to take my lunch break and someone has tampered with my lunch. I toss it in the trash and go without. I try to find a place where I can chill for just a few minutes; I can’t because my coworkers are mobbing me with loud obnoxious vulgar language, and yes, throw in a couple smokers getting in my face. I could be talking with guest, helping someone, it doesn’t matter as long as it harasses me. Guest with children are cringing at the obscenities, but that’s excitable here in Yosemite National Park; as long as it affects their target.
Now it’s afternoon, the family facility that I’m in is playing RAP music. This music spewing out obscenities to include the F, MF and N word. This rap music plays for 4 hours, over the music system for that facility. I have nothing against what someone does in the privacy of their home, but a place with toddlers is not it. Over 2 years ago I questioned one of our extremely unethical Human Resource managers, about this same thing. She was offended because I called it F music (I said F music and didn’t actually say the F word), she belittled me about my military service connected disabilities and relieved me from work for 2 weeks. I informed 2 senior managers; one said if I’m not happy I should move. I’ve tried to ask Yosemite’s Superintendent about this, but remember folks; I’m not allowed to talk with him. And, if I did; he doesn’t have to answer the hard questions, remember plausible deniability. But, Mr. Superintendent, what do I tell the father that asked me why we are playing such music? I profusely apologized to man, told him that I’ve addressed it many times; he and his family left. I finish my afternoon redoing things, I go to clock out and there is equipment blocking the time clock. I step out the building having to walk through a cloud of smoke from coworkers.
I head for home, get to the parking lot to my building; the neighbors from my building and other employees from one of our hotels rushes to the front of my building to light up and fill the air with smoke, for me to walk through. I step into the building; a woman rushes out of her room with a dog, the dog barking they both block me. I make it to my room, set down, take off my boots and try to relax. As I get a moment to myself; my neighbors start stomping pass my room, with a louder stomp right at my door, some will even hit my wall as they pass. This goes on all day and night. I hear someone slapping on the floor, then a dog barking right outside my door. It’s the woman living across the hall slapping the floor, making the other woman’s dog bark right outside my room. There are 2 other women standing there laughing. One long day there seemed to be urine right outside my door, beside my door mat. But, remember folks this is Yosemite National Park; using urine and feces are acceptable forms of harassment.
I need to do laundry, take a deep breath because I know what I’m in store for. I gather my laundry and soap, head to the laundry room. One of the red head perps comes from that area. I get in the laundry room and both washers are open (rare). I look into the bottom of both and one has a fresh chocolate bar broken into piece and partially hidden under the edge of the agitator; this was meant for me. I’m lucky it was just chocolate. I take the pieces out, place them in the trash just outside the laundry room; having a housing staff member give me a big smirk. I place my clothes in both washers and head back to my room.
I wait for my clothes to finish washing, then go back to put one load in the dryer (one washer takes about 30 min longer than the other). I go to put my clothes in the dryer; I’m blocked by a guy from the end of the hall. He steps right in front of me, cuts me off as he goes into the kitchen and causes me to stop in place. I put one load in a dryer, stepped out of the laundry room to have 2 housing staff completely blocking the hallway. I then have one of my neighbors step out of her room right in front of me, again causing me to stop. I head back to my room and wait for the other washer to finish.
I head back to put the other load in the dryer. Once I do, I head back to my room, the guy that cut me off earlier tries to do the same. I go to get the fist load out of the dryer and as I am; another perp that lives across the hall comes in the small laundry room to crowd me. Yep, she’s one of the designated laundry room crowders. I take my clothes from the dryers, check the other load, still a bit damp, so I leave it set for 20 more minutes and head back to my room. I go back 15 minutes later; the dryer is stopped at 5 minutes before finish and my clothes were as damp as when I left them. I reset the dryer and sat on top of it to wait until it finished. While I was waiting; the perp across the hall comes in and give me a big smirk. These perps know when my clothes will finish washing and drying, they will wait and set up to harass me and pull their skits. I go back to my room, finish folding my clothes as my neighbors and many that don’t live in my building, stomp pass my room, go into the kitchen slam pans against counters and sinks to make as much noise as possible. They will walk pass my room blurting out innuendos like “CRAZY and INSANE”. This is done day and night.
Oh, I almost forgot; because I stood up for myself, last week I had a woman go off on me screaming in the hallway, . She screamed I needed help, told me to F off, then screams for me to DIE, DIE, DIE. No biggie folks, this happens at work too.
There are many great and dedicated people here in Yosemite, but many don’t see the human trash that takes away from their dedication. This trash is allowed to roam the park freely and harass as they seem fit. This is done without consequence and impunity. This type of behavior has become all to common in the workplace and our neighborhoods. I spent almost 10 years in the Army. I did live recons and was awarded medals for gathering information. I received 12 medals, the Matrious Service Medal and was awarded Noncommissioned Officer of the Year. But, I Document and tell the TRUTH about what goes on here in Yosemite and am retaliated and discredited for it.
We have men and women sacrificing their lives for this nation. We lost 2 Firefighters and 19 injured, recently to the Ferguson Fire. We have men and women serving this country in many capacities. These men, women and their families make many sacrifices to try and make this a better nation. Even with their sacrifices we are becoming a nation of unethical dimwits that need the center of attention to fill their egos.
Being here almost 10 years. I’ve yet to find someone with the courage, morals and ethics to put a stop to the toxic and illegal behavior, here in Yosemite National Park. If I ever do, you will be the first to know. For those of you that mat wonder why I don’t just leave? I was taught to stand up for what I believe in. What is happening in Yosemite National Park WRONG and much of it illegal. I will continue to stand up to this TOXIC INCOMPIDENCE.
• The truth about Yosemite: www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Yosemite-Chief-Retiring-Ami...
Put on a good pair of headphones and take a listen to a small portion of what happens to whistleblowers in America, in our National Parks
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Mount Isa Township.
Like Broken Hill Mt Isa is an isolated outback town created because of a mineral discovery in 1923. It was part of the Cloncurry Shire council until it was declared a town with its own local government in 1963. Today it has a population of around 20,000 people but at its peak in the 1970s it had 34,000 people. The city area encompasses a huge unpopulated area making Mt Isa the second biggest city in Australia in land area! The town is basically a mining company town like Broken Hill but unlike Broken Hill and other mining centres in Australia it is such a long way from the coast and port facilities. No mining town is further from the nearest port than Mt Isa. The port of Townsville is almost 900 kms away and the capital Brisbane is over 1800 kms away.
Pastoralism came to the Mt Isa region in the 1860s and 1870s when much of outback QLD was occupied by graziers. The region was known for its mining as the Cloncurry copper and goldfields were not that far away and to the south of Mt Isa was the Duchess copper mine and township. (In 1966 the only major source of phosphate was discovered at Duchess mine.) The rocky outcrops and ranges of the area were attractive to prospectors hoping for another great mineral find after the great finds at Cloncurry in 1872.
An itinerant mineral prospector named John Campbell Miles was camped on the Leichhardt River looking at rock samples in late 1923. He found promising samples and took them to the government assayer in Cloncurry discovering that his samples were 50% to 78% pure lead with copper as well. The QLD government investigated the deposits further as Miles named the field Mt Isa. Businessmen in Cloncurry saw the potential of the area for mining. In January 1924 the Mount Isa Mines Ltd Company was floated beginning their search for investment capital to develop the site. Douglas McGillivray of Cloncurry was a major investor and his funds permitted the new company to acquire mining leases for the relevant areas. Miners flocked to the area and by the end of 1924 a small town had emerged with tents, and a few wooden buildings from other towns in the region. Mt Isa then had a school room, a water supply from the Leichhardt River and stores, hotels and an open air picture theatre!
But it was to take another 10 years before large scale mining began. MIM (Mt Isa Mines) continued to purchases additional mining leases and they searched overseas for capital as the first leases cost them £245,000. On top for this was the cost of underground explorations, drilling, metallurgical tests and plant construction. By 1932 MIM had spent around £4 million with no production, returns or profits. But the size and potential of this project was not underestimated by anyone. In 1929 the QLD government extended the railway from Cloncurry ( it reached there in 1910) via Duchess to Mt Isa. By this time the population was around 3,000 people. Mined ore was carted by road to the smelter in Cloncurry. The township had progressed too with a town planned by the Company with tree lined streets on the river, with a dam for a water supply on Rifle Creek. The mine operations were on the western side of the River and the town and businesses on the eastern side of the River. The Catholic Church opened in 1929 and the Company built a fine small hospital for the town. As the Great Depression hit MIM stopped spending on the development on the town and concentrated on the mines. By this time profits were repaying interest on the loans but the company did not return a dividend on investments until 1947.
The fortunes of Mt Isa Mines changed in the 1930s as Julius Kruttschnitt, a native of New Orleans was appointed mine manager in 1930. He obtained additional financial investment in MIM from the American Smelting and Refining Company and the first reruns on lead production occurred in 1931. By 1937 under Kruttschnitt’s guidance the almost bankrupt company of 1930 was returning profits by 1936. This manager was known for always wearing a collar, tie and suit regardless of the Mt Isa temperatures. He played sport with the miners, his wife contributed to town events and he worked on better housing for the workers. He retired from the MIM in 1953 but remained on the Company Board until 1967. At this time Mt Isa Mines became the largest single export earner for Australia and MIM was the largest mining company in Australia. Kruttschnitt died in 1974 in Brisbane. He received many Australiana and international awards for his work in mining engineering and metallurgy. He really put Mt Isa on the map.
During World War Two the mine concentrated on copper and ceased lead and silver operations as demanded by the war needs. Until this time the mine had concentrated on lead production. Labour shortages were crippling during the War years but the mine continued. Many American troops were stationed here too and the Mt Isa Hospital had an underground hospital built in case of air raids. No bombing attacks were experienced and the hospital was mainly used by nurses on night duty catching up on some sleep in the relative cool underground but the hospital still remains and is operated by the National Trust. It is unlikely that we will have free time when the underground hospital is open to visit it.
After World War Two the fortunes of Mt Isa changed remarkably. Lead prices trebled after the War from £25 per ton to £91 per ton and hence the MIM was able to pay its first dividends in 1947. Workers received a lead bonus to make their wages higher and about three times the amount of average wages in Brisbane. The population of the town doubled in the early 1950s just before Kruttschnitt retired from around 3,000 to over 7,000. It doubled again by 1961 when the population reached 13,000 and it doubled again by 1971 when it reached 26,000. New facilities came with the bigger population- an Olympic size swimming pool, some air conditioning in some buildings, bitumen roads, less dust, more hotels and employee clubs, including the Marie Kruttschnitt Ladies Club! Miners’ wages doubled during the Korean War. It was during this period the rail line from Mt Isa to Townsville became the profitable ever for the Queensland Railways. It was the profits from this line that led Queensland Rail to develop and rebuilt other lines and introduce the electric Tilt train etc. MIM discovered more and more ore deposits and firstly doubled and then trebled production in the 1950s. Mt Isa surpassed Broken Hill as Australia’s biggest and wealthiest mine.
New suburbs were built by MIM, the town became the centre of local government and the Company built a new dam for a water supply on Lake Moondarra with importer sand for a lake shore beach. As more stores opened in Mt Isa Mount Isa mines closed its cooperative store. A large new hospital was opened in 1960; the Royal Flying Doctor Service transferred its headquarters from Cloncurry to Mt Isa; and the town had a new air of prosperity and modernity. The calm soon broke. There was a major split between the Australian Workers Union, an Americana union agitator called Patrick Mackie and the Mine management over pay and profit sharing ideas. All work at the mine stopped during a bitter dispute that lasted eight months. The Liberal Country Party government which included Joh Bjelke Petersen (he was a minster and not premier in 1964) used the police to restrict the activities of the AWU and the Mackie Unionists. Many miners left the town as they could not survive without work and it took some time after the dispute resolution for the mine to restart full operations. Mining restarted in 1965.
Ten years (1974) later MIM financially assisted with the construction and opening of the new Civic Centre. Mt Isa’s population reached its maximum of around 34,000 and the future looked bright. As the ore quality declined the town population declined but MIM found new ways of extracting copper and lead from lower grade ore. The city continued to exist until MIM sold utu to Xstrata in 2003. Since the then town population has been slowly increasing. The local federal MP is Bob Katter who is proposing to create a new conservative party for the next federal election.
Mount Isa Mines Today.
In the 2001 Census over 20% of Mt Isa’s workforce was employed in mining. The town mainly survives because of the Xstrata Mines which took over the previous company, Mount Isa Mines (MIM) Ltd in 2003. Xstrata has invested $570 million in the mines since its takeover. Xstrata today employs over 3,000 staff and 1,000 contractors in the mine. Xstrata is a large multinational mining company with its headquarters in Switzerland and its head office in London. It has mines in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Americas. It miens coal, and copper primarily in Australia at places as far apart as Mt Isa, McArthur River zinc mine in the NT, Bulga coal mine and Anvil Hill coal mine in NSW and Cosmos nickel mine in WA.
Apart from the mines itself Mt Isa has other infrastructure: a power station (oil fired); an experimental mine dam; and various buildings and works such as the winding plant, shaft headframe etc. Most importantly for the township it also has the copper smelter works. The ore is further processed in the Townsville smelter after transportation to the coast. The Mt Isa smelter produced over 200,000 tons of copper in 2010 and smelted lead and the concentrator refines the ores of copper, zinc, lead and silver. Across all its mines in Australia Xstrata employs almost 10,000 people second only to its workforce in Africa. Xstrata also operates the Ernest Henry copper, gold and magnetite mines 38 kms north of Cloncurry. This group of mines is expected to employ around 500 people on a long term basis. All the ore from these mines is treated in the concentrator and the smelter in Mt Isa. The Isa smelter and concentrator also handles the silver, lead and zinc from the George Fisher( Hilton) mines 20 kms south of Mt Isa. The stack from the smelter, erected in 1978, stands 270 metres high and can be seen from 40 kms away.
Outback at Isa Discovery Centre and Riversleigh Fossil Centre.
This centre was opened in 2003. The Riversleigh Fossil Centre moved into the complex; a purpose built mine called the Hard Times mine was dug and opened to give visitors an underground mine experience; and the Isa Experience Gallery opened with an Outback Park outside. The complex also operates the Visitor Information Centre. The Isa Experience Gallery uses multimedia approaches to bring the history and Aboriginal culture and mining background of Mount Isa to life.
Riversleigh World Heritage fossil site is 250kms north of Mt Isa on the Gregory River on an isolated cattle station. The fossil site covers over 10,000 hectares and is now included in the Lawn Hill national Park. It has been a protected site since 1983 and was declared a World Heritage site of international significance in 1994. But why? Sir David Attenborough explains:
Riversleigh is the worlds’ richest mammal fossil site dating from 15-25 million years ago. The massive number of fossils discovered here are generally imbedded in hard limestone which was formed when freshwater pools solidified. This happened at time when this part of Australia was a rich rainforest area, rather than the semi-arid grassland that it is now. The fossils cover a period of 20 million years helping scientists understand how Australia, its climate and animal species changed. Most of what is known about Australia’s mammals over 20 million years was learnt from bone discoveries at Riversleigh, and the most significant ones were found in just one hour!
It is the mammals that we find the most fascinating today with large mega-fauna from prehistoric eras the most amazing. But there have also been finds of birds, frogs, fish, turtles and reptiles. The finds have included: the ancestors of Tasmanian Tigers (thylacines); large meat eating kangaroos; huge crocodiles; giant flightless birds; the ancestors of our platypus (monotreme); ancient koalas and wombats; diprotodon; giant marsupial moles and bandicoots; around 40 species of bats; and marsupial “lions”. The site has yielded a complete skull and teeth of a giant platypus and the various thylacines have added to our previous knowledge of just one- the now extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
Scientists have dug over 250 fossil rich sites at Riversleigh finding hundreds of new species. Who has heard of: dasyurids, cuscuses, ilariids and wynyardiids? I have no idea what they were. Other strange discoveries have been: 'Thingodonta' (Yalkaparidon) - an odd marsupial with skull and teeth like no other living marsupial; Fangaroo- a small grass eating kangaroo species with giant teeth; the Giant Rat-kangaroo, (Ekaltadeta) that ate meat( perhaps the Fangaroo); and the Emuary, (Emuarius) which was half emu and half cassowary in features. The Fossil Centre in Mt Isa has some reconstructions of some of these fossil animals of prehistoric times.
pinback circa 1970. The time has come again to agitate! As Mother Jones said "Pray for the dead and FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING"
NE corner of E. 79th and Linwood at Addison, Cleveland, OH
www.nhlink.net/ClevelandNeighborhoods/hough/Eyewitness2.htm
"On July 18, 1966, at dusk of a
steamy hot Monday, someone posted a sign outside the 79'ers bar, situated on the southeast corner of E.79th Street and Hough Avenue. The sign read, "No Water For Niggers". To make matters more difficult, the bar manager and a hired hand, who both happened to be white, patrolled the front of the bar, with shotguns, to show that they meant business. Hough's population was almost 90,000. Over 78,000 of whom were African-American. All living in an area that stretches from E.55th to E.105th Streets. Bordered on the north by Superior and south by Euclid Avenues. A crowd of over 300 people gathered at the crossroads in a matter of minutes.
The Cleveland Police Department arrived, in force, to diffuse the situation. However, the presence of the CPD only intensified the crowd's anger. Rocks and bottles began to take flight, someone fired a shot or lit a firecracker and police responded by firing volleys overhead to disperse the crowd.This tactic backfired setting off a wave of firebombings and arsons that spread west to 71st and east to 93rd Streets.
When firefighters arrived to put out the flames, snippers disrupted firefighter and police activities. Sporatic snipper fire, from various apartment and house windows, caused delays and even pull outs for safety's sake. This caused massive fire damage and heavy losses. The action also brought aggresive police response. Homes and apartments were busted into with Gestapo style search and seizure tactics. On the streets, police shot out the street lights for cover and began returning fire to suspected snipper positions. Joyce Arnett, a 26 year-old mother of three, was shot dead, when calling out a window, trying to get permission to go home and check on her children.
For six nights the disturbances continued.
On tuesday night, the arsons increased. Looting, which had begun Monday night, began to get out of control.Businesses along Hough, Wade Park and Lexington Avenues, were vandalized. Cleveland mayor, Ralph Locher, called in the National Guard to quell the disturbances. Initially, 1000 guardsmen were called into Hough.
Early Wednesday morning, Percy Giles, a 38 year-old off duty seaman, was shot and killed at E.86th Street and Hough Avenue. Police had reportedly been exchanging gunfire with snippers in the area. Giles was the second fatality of the disturbance. When the arsons and looting continued, another 700 guardsmen were called in.
Early Thursday, the arsons and violence spread beyond the Hough area. The University Party Center at 10626 Cedar Avenue, was tourched. Because of the disturbance at the party center, Henry Towns, a 22 year-old resident of Cedar, loaded his family into his automobile and attempted to flee the area. According to police, Towns attempted to crash a police roadblock and his 1957 convertable was riddled with bullets. When the smoke cleared, Diana, Town's 16 year-old wife and her three year-old son, Christopher Green, were critically wounded. The couples seven month-old son, Emanuel, and Mrs. Town's 12 year-old half brother, Ernest Williams, were wounded less seriously. Capt. James Pletcher of the National Guard was also wounded in the melee. Two police cars, responding to the incident, collided and four officers were injured.
Early Friday, 54 year-old, Sam Winchester was fatally wounded. The incident brought the death toll to three. The disturbances and arsons were reported as far south as Kinsman Road and as far north as St.Clair Avenue. In the nearby Murray Hill area, armed vigilante groups were formed. Rumors of Black marauders, invaiding thier neighborhood were circulated. The FBI was called in to check the possibility of outside agitators causing the problems.
Early Saturday, a group of vigilantes happened upon 29 year-old, Benoris Toney, who was sitting in his car in the parking lot of the Dougherty Lumber Co. at E.118th Street and Euclid. Toney was killed by a shotgun blast. That night, the disturbances officially ended with a report of a snipper shooting out a rear-view mirror of a National Guard jeep.
When the dust settled, four lives (all Black) had been lost and hundreds had been injured, some critically. Police had made 275 related arrests. Literally, blocks and blocks of homes, apartments and businesses along Lexington, Wade Park and Hough Avenues, were destroyed. Thousands of people were displaced. During the disturbances, tens of thousands lost electrical and telephone services. Utility workers were not allowed into the area, it was weeks before all service was restored. Over 240 fires, mostly arsons, were tabulated. Neighborhood businesses were dealt a death blow. Many never recovered from the week of disturbances."
Seaton Carew is a seaside resort in County Durham, northern England, with a population of 6,018 (2017). The area is named after a Norman French family called Carou who owned lands in the area and settled there, while 'Seaton' means farmstead or settlement by the sea. The resort falls within the unitary authority of Hartlepool.
It separated from most of Hartlepool by the Durham Coast Line. The resort is on the North Sea coast and north of the river Tees estuary.
There is evidence that the area was occupied in Roman times as vestiges of Roman buildings, coins and artefacts are occasionally found on the beach. Later during the reign of Henry I, Seaton came into the possession of Robert De Carrowe and the settlement changed its name to Seaton Carrowe. In medieval times salt was extracted from sea water by evaporation and ash from the fuel used to remove the water was dumped on North Gare and now forms a series of grass covered mounds on the golf course.[9] A Gilbertine priory or cell to Sempringham Priory was established in the Seaton area although so far no trace has been found. In 1667 a gun fortification was built on the promontory of Seaton Snook to defend the mouth of the Tees, particularly against the Dutch—remnants of these fortifications can be seen today.
Seaton Carew was a fishing village but grew in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as a seaside holiday resort for wealthy Quaker families from Darlington, effectively founding Seaton Carew as a seaside resort. Many stayed at the rows of stucco houses and hotels built along the seafront and around The Green—a turfed square facing the sea.
In 1867 a hoard of Spanish silver dollars was revealed in the sands following a heavy storm.
In 1874 the Durham and Yorkshire Golf Club (now Seaton Carew Golf Club) was founded by Duncan McCuaig, with a 14-hole course on coastal land to the south-east of Seaton Carew. Four holes were added in 1891 and in 1925 further work was carried out with the guidance of renowned golf course designer Alister MacKenzie.
In 1882 Seaton Carew was incorporated into West Hartlepool and the Museum of Hartlepool records that a small riot involving Irish labourers took place in the late Victorian era, when townsfolk mistook them for Fenian agitators.
Just north of Seaton was the works of the West Hartlepool Steel & Iron Company. In 1898 Christopher Furness and W.C. Gray of West Hartlepool purchased the Stockton Malleable Iron Works, the Moor Steel and Iron Works, and the West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works to form the South Durham Steel and Iron Company. This became part of the British Steel Corporation in 1967. The West Hartlepool Steel and Iron Works is thought to have closed in 1979.
Tourists and visitors are attracted to the resort's four miles of sandy beach, promenade, arcades, and fish and chip restaurants. The beach is regularly cleaned and is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer holidays. In 2019 the main beach was given an 'excellent' bathing rating by the Environment Agency and was granted a Seaside Award by environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy.
The artist and leading railway poster designer Frank Henry Mason (1875–1965) was born at Seaton Carew and briefly worked in a Hartlepool shipyard.
The science fiction writer Mark Adlard was born in Seaton Carew in 1932 and for a time he lived on The Green.
Neil Warnock, football manager/pundit, lived in Seaton Carew when he played for Hartlepool United.
Footballer Evan Horwood grew up in Seaton before moving to Yorkshire to play for Sheffield United. He has also played for Carlisle United F.C., Hartlepool United and Tranmere Rovers.
John Darwin and his wife Anne lived in Seaton when John faked his death in a canoeing accident in 2002. The story made the news across the world, and it inspired a BBC drama documentary on the Darwins' lives
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On Oct. 22, 2014, Smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G angered China when he visited the Hong Kong protest site. Kenny G says that he's not a foreign agitator trying to defy the Chinese Communist Party.
Inspired by Bill Smith’s photo today.
Put some zing into your 365! Join We're Here!
This striking building is San Francisco's third church dedicated to St Mary; the first, dating from 1854 remains as 'Old St Mary's Church' on the edge of Chinatown, but this is a direct replacement of the second, built 1891 and destroyed by arson in 1962. That was a time of considerable modernisation in catholicism, which encouraged the commissioning of a bold new design dominated (overwhelmed?) by a concrete saddle roof smoothly curving via hyperbolic paraboloids from a 75 m square cross-section at its base to a Greek cross cross-section at its 58m-high apex (75 m including the rooftop spire's cross).
This is the view up the middle of the eastern side; the blue is light entering though vertical windows whilst the (mainly) yellow glass is horizontal, in the roof.
The pattern of triangles, 1,680 in total, of 128 different sizes, outline the net of precast coffers supporting the roof skin.
I'm not sure precisely who designed the cathedral. It's clear that three local architects (John Michael Lee, Paul A. Ryan and Angus McSweeney) worked with the internationally-renowned Pier Luigi Nervi and Pietro Belluschi – did the latter two, acting as consultants, devise a concept executed by the former three? Nervi and Belluschi were certainly known for monumental concrete structures.
Development of the site began in 1965; the cornerstone was laid in 1967, construction ended in 1970 and the new cathedral was consecrated in May 1971, though formal dedication to Saint Mary of the Assumption didn't take place until 1996, somewhat later than its first papal mass: John Paul II visited in 1987.
Irrespective of its 'official' name, St Mary's Cathedral is also known locally, for its supposed external resemblance to a top-loading washing machine's agitator, as 'Our Lady of Maytag' (apparently a US brand of washing machines).
Hanson Australia is a premixed concrete, aggregates and precast company. It owns and operates 55 quarries, 225 concrete plants, and two precast concrete facilities across Australia..
Hanson is part of the Heidelberg Cement group, a German multinational building materials company.
Their Tipper and Agitator trucks are always immaculately. Not easy in such a dirty business.
We’re both on a Motorway off ramp and heading onto Kingsford Smith Drive. He’s about to turn left and I'm going right.
Mini Truck .. many jobs.
HIGHLAND PRINCESS
REGISTRATION
Owner GulfMark UK Ltd
Year Built 2014
Builder Rosetti Marino SpA, Italy
Flag UK
Classification ABS +1A1, Offshore Support
Vessel, (E), + DPS-2, + AMS, +
ACCU Oil Recovery Capability
Class 1, FFV1, UWILD, GP
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
Length Overall 246 ft (74.95 m)
Breadth (moulded) 52 ft (16.00 m)
Draught (max) 19 ft (5.85 m)
GT 2,215
NT 757
Deadweight 3,116 T
CAPACITIES
Cargo Deck Area 7,696 ft2 (174 ft x 44 ft)
715.5 m2 (53 m x 13.5 m)
Deck Load 1,650 T
Fuel Oil Cargo 243,830 gal (923 m3)
Potable Water 226,131 gal (856 m3)
Drill Water 321,497 gal (1,217 m3)
Oil Based Mud* 6,247 bbls
Base Oil 279 bbls
Brine 4,998 bbls
Oil Recovery 800 m3 (8 tanks)
Dry Bulk 11,318 ft3 @ 100% (80psi)
* Mud/Brine tanks (S.G. 2.5) 10 dual purpose mud /
brine tanks.
Can be split 6/4; mud / brine with total segregation
CARGO DISCHARGE
Fuel Oil 200 m3 /hr @ 90 m hd
Pot Water 200 m3 /hr @ 90 m hd
Oil Based Mud 2 x 100 m3 /hr @ 180 m hd
Base Oil 90 m3 /hr @ 90 m hd
Brine 100 m3/hr @ 180 m hd
Cement 80 T/hr @ 90 m hd
Barytes 60 T/hr @ 90 m hd
Bentonite 100 T/hr @ 90 m hd
Drill Water 150 m3/hr @ 90 m hd
PERFORMANCE
c. 14.5kn @ c. 25.0t / 24hrs
c. 13.0kn @ c. 15.9t / 24hrs
c. 11.0kn @ c. 12.3t / 24hrs
c. 9.0kn @ c. 9.8t / 24hrs
ACCOMMODATION
20 persons 12 x 1 Man cabins
4 x 2 Man cabins
Manoeuvring Equipment
1 x Poscon Joystick (portable)
DYNAMIC POSITIONING SYSTEM (CLASS II)
Konsberg – Simrad K-POS DP-21 Green DPS (DP II)
References 1 x Radius 1000 Radar
Positioning System
1 x DGPS DPS-200 with IALA
receiver
1 x DGPS DPS-100
MACHINERY
Main Engines 2 x 3,741 BHP
Thrusters Bow 2 x 885 BHP
Thrusters Stern 2 x 800 BHP
Shaft Altenators 2 x 1800 kW
Aux Generators 2 x 296 kW
Rudders 2 Rolls Royce High Lift
Propellers 2 x CPP
Deck Crane 1 x 6T @ 16m
Tugger Winch 2 x 10T
Capstans 2 x 8T
TANK WASHING SYSTEM
Toftejorg fixed tank cleaning system in mud/brine tanks.
Hot water and chemical dosing applications.
agitators
Electric agitators in all mud / brine tanks.
Navigation equipment
1 x Furuno 10cm ARPA Radar
1 x Furuno 3cm Radar
1 x Furuno GPS Satellite Navigator
3 x Raytheon Gyro Compass
1 x Raytheon Autopilot
1 x Furuno AIS FA 150
1 x Furuno Echosounder
1 x Furuno Naviknot Speed Log
1 x Furuno Weather Fax
Communication equipment
2 x Inmarsat C
1 x Internal Intercom System
Radio plant according to GMDSS A3 requirements
4 x Motorola GP 340 – Handheld UHF
2 x Furuno VHF RT 5022
1 x Furuno VHF External communication according to
GMDSS 3 x sailor SP 3520
1 x Sailor 406 MHz EPIRB McMurdo
1 x KU Band Satellite Communications System
Fire fighting
FiFi 1 with Self Drenching System
2 x 1800m3
/hr pumps
2 x 1200m3
/hr monitors
(No foam, water only)
additional features
Deck Power Outlets 2 x 500Amp Outlets (440v)
Reefer sockets 12 x 110v / 32Amp
FRC NDM Model
NPT60RB – 6 man 140 bhp inboard water jet
Dispersant Spraying 2 x 10 m stainless steel booms
Dispersant Storage 9 m3
Oil Recovery 800m3
Power pack For oil rec. equipment
I was out with one of my mates driving past Iveco Brisbane and I was this sitting out the front. So on the way back to my mates house I pulled onto the service road and parked out the front of the Iveco dealer to get some photo's.
I was skeptical at first when I heard it would get the Stralis grill, but I have to say the new Acco looks really nice, especially with the new bumper and headlights, however it wouldn't be an Acco if it didn't have the same. overall cab shape, haha. This is an Agitator spec Acco, a shame they still have the stupid plastic visor, steel is the only way to go for compactor use, pretty stupid by Iveco to be honest.
Design PSV VS 485 CD
Classification DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design,
Comf- V(3) C(3), E0, LfL, SF Oil rec,
d k+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
Builders Hellesøy Yard Løfallstrand
Port of reg. Fosnavaa g
Flag BAHAMAS
MMSI 311 071 800
IMO no 9470193
Delivery Date june 2010
Callsign C6ZY3
MEASUREMENTS
Length o.a.: 85.00 m
Length b.p.p.: 77.70 m
Breath moulded: 20.00 m
Depth moulded: 8.60 m
Draught, Max.: 6.825 m
Freeboard, min.: 1.775 m
Air Draft (at summerdr.) 35.00 m
Gross tonnage: 4 366 t
Net tonnage: 1 813 t
Deadweight: 5 486 t
Lightship: 3 069 t
Classification
DNV + 1A1, Ice C, DYNPOS Autr, Clean Design, Comf- V(3) C(3), E0,
LfL, SF Oil rec, dk+, hl(p), Compliance to NAUT-OSV
CARGO CAPACITIES NOFO 2 0 0 5
Deck cargo: 2 800 tons
Deck area max: 1 005 m2
Deck Length: 60.6 m
Deck breadth: 16.8 m
Cargo Rail height: 4.46 m
Deck strength: 10 tonnes/m2
Fuel Oil: 903.5 m3 Flow meter with printer
Liquid Mud: SG 2.8 702.9 m3
1 Agitators in each tank (Hyd. Driven)
Brine: SG 2.5 418 m3
Base oil: 203 m3
Pot water: 1 007.3 m3
Drillwater / ballast: 2 470 m3
Methanol +: 145.5 m3
Nitrogen bottle rack system + 1 Nitrogene Comp.
Special Product: 146 m3
Slop: 186.8 m3
ORO: 1 803.2 m3 (SG 2.8)
Cement / Barite/bentonit: 440 m3s
8 x 55 m3 Tanks arranged in 2 sevtion, what allows simultaneous loading and discharging or loading/discharging
of two different cargoes.
Dispersant: 34.4 m3
Lubrication oil: 34.8 m3
TANK CLEANING SYSTEM
A total of 11 cleaning machines fitted in: MUD, Brine, special product and Slop tanks
Hot Water Tank: 1 x 45.7 m3
DISCHARGE RATES
Fuel Oil: 2 x 0-150 m3/h 9 bar
Liquid Mud: 4 x 0-100 m3/h 24 bar
Brine: 2 x 0-150 m3 22.5 bar
Base Oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Base oil: 2 x 0-100 m3/h 9 bar
Pot.water: 1 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Drillwater/ballast: 2 x 0-150 m3 9 bar
Methanol: 1 x 0-75 m3 7.2 bar
Special Product: 1 x 0-75 m3 10.8 bar
Slop: 2 x 100 m3/hrs 7,0 bar
ORO: 8 x 0-100 m3/bar 7.0 bar
Cement / Barite: 2 x 30 m3/h 6.5 bar
CARGO MANI FOLDS
Manifolds midships each side inside safe haven and aft starboard and port side.
MACHINERY / D/E-PROPULSION Resiliently Mounted
Main Engines: 4 x 1 901 kW Cat: Type 3 516 BTA
Main generators: 4 x AvK DSG 86 M1-4W. (2 028 kVA)
Harbour & Emergency Engine: 1 x 265 kW Volvo Penta D9A
Harbour & Emergency generator: 1 x 223 kVA. UC.M274H-1
690V; 60Hz
MAIN PROPULSION
Frequency controlled: 2 x 2 300 KW Azi Diesel Electric QD-
560M2-6W. (Fixed pitch)
Fwd. Tunnel thrusters: 2 x 1 000 KW. Brunvoll
Fwd. Brunvoll Retractable Azi: 1 x 800 Brunvoll AR-63-LNA-1650 retracable thruster
PERFORMANCE / CONSUMPTION
Max speed: 15.4 knots / 28.4 m3/24 hrs
Transit speed: 14.2 knots / 23.32 m3/24 hrs
Econ- speed: 11.0 knots / 12 m3/24 hrs
Service. speed: 12.5 knots / 17.14 m3 pr 24 hrs
DP II Average: 5.6 m3/ 24 hrs
Harbour Mode: 2.0 m3 / 24 hrs
BRIDGE DES I GN: NA U T - OSV
1 x Consol forward bridge
3 x Consol aft bridge
1 x Consol each bridge wing
1 x Radio station
1 x Operation Control/office
AUTOMATION SYSTEM
Wartsila IAS FlexiBridge (BridgeControl System)
DP S Y S TEM DYNPOS A U TR
Kongsberg DP II K-Pos
1 x Fanbeam Kongsberg Lazer Mk4.2
1 x Radascan
2 x DPS Kongsberg 200CM
2 x Vindsensor Gill
1 x Roll & Pitch Sea Tex MRU2
1 x DP motion Sea Tex MRU5
THRUSTER CONTROL
Kongsberg C-Joy Constant
BRIDGE WATCH MONITORING SYSTEM
Kongsberg Integrated Bridge
ACCOMMODATION 23 PERSONS
Cabins 13 off single cabins
5 off double cabins
1 off office
1 off Hospital
LIFE SAVING EQUIPMENT
Safety Equipment: Acc to NMD/SOLAS for 23 persons
Life Raft: 4 x 25 persons Viking
Mob boat: Norsafe type 655 makojet, 10 persons
Mob boat davit: 1 x HLT 3 500 TTS
Survival suits: 23 persons
INCINERATOR
1 x Teamtec. 500 000 kcal/h for solid waste, plastic and sludge oil.
STEAM GENERATOR
1x 1 450 kW and el.heating 4 x 10 kW
ENTERTAINING EQUIPMENTS
1 x Sat. TV: Seatel
1 x Rack with 4 x Tuners and 1x DVD
1 x TV in all crew cabins
1 x TV in all lounges
1 x Radio / CD in all cabins
1 x Gymnasium w/Equipments
DEC K EQUIPMENT
Windless 2 x Windlass Mooring winch
Mooring 4 x Mooring lines 180 m each
Capstan 2 x 8t, NMD
Anchor chain 5225 m Ø 46 mm steel grade NVK3
Cargo securing winch 6 x 3t SWL. NMD CSW-3
Placed on each side Shelter Deck.
Tugger Winch 2 x SWL 15t, type TU-15
Deck Crane PS Basket transfer 1 x 3 t/13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPK 115
Deck Crane Stb. Cargo handling 1 x 3t /13 m SWL. TTS Marine GPT-80
ANTI ROLLING SYSTEM
2 x Stabilizing tanks. Passive anti.roll system. 439.9 m3 (aft) and 159.6 m3 (fwd)
Navigation Equipment
1x Furuno FAR-2837S. S-band radar (10 cm)
1 x Furuno FCR-2827. X-band radar (3 cm)
1 x Autopilot. Simrad AP-50
3 x Gyro Simrad GC-80
2 x GPS Furuno GP-150
1 x AIS Furuno FA-150
1 x Speed Log. Skipper EML224
1 x Echo Sounder Furuno FE-700
1 x Speed repeater Skipper IR300
ECDIS. Furuno Tecdis T-2137
VDR. Furuno VR-3000
COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT GMDS S A 3
GSM Telephones. Samsung
Radar transponders. 1 x Jotron Tron SART
GMDSS hand portable VHF. Jotron Tron TR-20
UHF Portable radio. Motorola GP-340
Inmarsat-C. Furuno Felcom 15
Radio Station MF/HF. Furuno FS-2570C
Radio Station VHF/DSC. Furuno FM-8800S
DSC Terminal. MF/HF Furuno FS-2570C
NavTex. Furuno NX-700B
Manual EPIRB. Jotron 45 SX
Sarsat free float EPIRB. Jotron Tron 40S MkII
Internal Telephone System. Zenitel ACM-144-66/VO
Sound reception System. Vingtor
Fixed wiewlwaa terminal, Ericson G32/G36
Emergency Telephone System, Vingtor VSP-211-L
Public Announcement/GA Alarm: Zenitel VMA-2