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....una parte dei miei libri....e di quello che sono.
....part of my books....and of who i am.
....une partie de mes livres....et de ce que je suis.
(lo so, non è un'idea originale, ma mi piaceva troppo!)
(i know, not an original idea, but i couldn't resist!!)
A super bit (in my opinion) of old stone architecture (below) was demolished to make way for this pointy bit to the hotel now occupying the old Education Department buildings.
Okay, so it is little bit of a stretch on the theme, but I have been in Liverpool since Thursday. I have been following a little giant girl, her dog and her giant uncle around the streets...and I am totally exhausted ! But there is deffo glass in them windows !
You can really get some scale on this giant if you look at the folks in the windows, he was huge.
To make him walk people stood on a platform, grabbed a rope and then jumped to the ground. You can see two chaps in mid air doing this in the shot. I am sure there is an easier way, but it would not have been as half as magnificant as seeing those people do that !
Now I have over a 1000 shots to sort out. And as each shot has a RAW and a jpeg equivalent, so double that original figure. My little laptop was screaming for mercy by the end of today.
And you know what they say about luck ? Luck is when preperation meets opportunity ! Well, I got down there on thursday. So I went out for a beer or 10 with my brother. When I got back to my hotel, I decided to have a smoke before going to bed. Outside the hotel was a ferris wheel, so I decided to take my camera to get some night shots of it at the same time.
As I got closer to the wheel I noticed a little commotion over to my right...they were putting the giant uncle (he of the diving suit) into place. So at about 1.30am Friday morning I got shots that very few people would have got !
A young security guard walks over after about 20 mins "Hey mate". Oh, dear. What could this be ? "Do you want to get behind the barriers to take some photos ?" And this lovely man, let me through with the words "Don't tell anyone it was me". What a smashing bloke !
I got some really good night shots of him close up.. And I'm thinking "No other f*cker will have these ". What a result !
All in all, a fantastic weekend, but very exhausting. Before each of the events I chose to shoot, I got there an hour and a half early. Mind you, I did always end up with the best spots with only the barriers in front of me.
As for me now. I'm so tired I don't even want to go the boozer tonight...and that (for me) is the epitome of exhaustion !
A line of drill bits in an index. Taken for DPS assignment "Organized"
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Arty thinks this branch may be a bit narrow for him to pose on! He was such a good boy staying for a few shots before jumping down!
This unusual photo was cliked by me when the frontal wind shield glass of the bus we were travelling, caved in suddenly due to external pressure, resulting in bits & pieces condition of the glass falling in front of the bus. I immediately took out our National (INDIA) flag & kept it on the glass pieces to create this image. This was taken on the tour to Kancheepuram by the members of Ambitions4 Photography Club in April 2004.
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Sharing a Little Bit of Albany History
By Joe Licavoli
On February 2nd, students from West Albany High School finally got to meet and know a little bit about their next-door neighbors from NETL’s Albany site. As part of continuing outreach efforts by both NETL and other community leaders, 28 advanced placement (AP) chemistry students attended a two-and-a-half hour set of talks at the Albany Regional Museum. These talks focused on Albany’s specialty metals history on the production of zirconium and titanium. In planning the event, NETL’s Joseph Licavoli worked with Sylvia Harvey (Teacher at West Albany High), Howard Poppleton (Retired—US Bureau of Mines), Mark Sidall (Retired—ATI Wah Chang), Dennis Emerson (Retired—ATI Wah Chang), Barry Valder (Retired—ATI Wah Chang), Judy Weissert (Director, Albany Regional Museum) and Mae Yih (Retired State Senator). The talks included an introduction to materials science, the history of specialty metals processing in Albany, and current/future uses of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, and tantalum.
After the talks, students and speakers held casual conversations about careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields and about specific research topics that had been discussed.
Mae Yih graciously offered to provide lunch for the students as well. Students were very engaged in the talks and grateful for the opportunity to discuss science with people that have helped make Albany a key player in metallurgy over the years. As part of her “Albany Renaissance” project, Mae Yih is sponsoring an essay contest for Albany area schools with this year’s topic focusing on the metal titanium and its uses. This essay contest and the high school visit are a part of ongoing efforts by members of the Albany community to help advance STEM education and bring more attention to the strong influence and positive effects that metallurgical processing facilities have had in shaping Albany’s history
Barry Valder (Retired—ATI Wah Chang) is shown presenting
Odd bits and pieces of my model collection, including some Ever Ready tube train carriages, an converted Solido RT into an LT AEC STL type Breakdown tender a Morris LD Van a Ford Transit van a Budgie Wolsley Police car a Shevoke Drewery dust cart by Matchbox.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. A 2569/1, 1939-1940. Photo: Cine Allianz.
Austrian actor Rolf Wanka (1901-1982) was a handsome, suave star of the European cinema of the 1930s and the 1950s. He often played supporting parts as well-dressed, dignified gentlemen, and appeared in more than 100 films and television shows between 1931 and 1976.
Rudolf Josef Wanka was born in 1901 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria). He studied at the Technologocal Highschool in Prague, and later at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, where he majored in economics, medicine and philosophy. From 1928 on, he was the director of a machine factory. In 1931, he made his film debut with a bit part in the classic thriller M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder/M (Fritz Lang, 1931), starring Peter Lorre. The film revolves around the actions of a serial killer of children and the manhunt for him, conducted by both the police and the criminal underworld. Wanka decided to become an actor The following year, he appeared in the German-Czech comedy Wehe, wenn er losgelassen/Woe, if he let go (Martin Fric, Karel Lamac, 1932). In 1933 and 1934, he studied acting with Aurel Novotny in Vienna. In the next years he took part in German, Austrian as well as in Czech films. In 1935, he was the partner of Marta Eggerth in the comedy Die ganze Welt dreht sich um Liebe/The World's in Love (Viktor Tourjansky, 1935). He played leading roles in in such films as the drama Páter Vojtech/Father Vojtech (Martin Fric, 1936), the musical Flucht an die Adria/Escape to the Adriatic (Eugen Schulz-Breiden, 1937) and the romantic comedy Poslícek lásky/The Lover of Love (Miroslav Cikán, 1937) with Hana Vitova. These films were shot at the Barrandov Studios in Prague, and they were often made in alternate language versions in German and Czech. Wanka also directed one film, Vydelecne zeny/Working Woman (Rolf Wanka, 1937).
Rolf Wanka was multi-lingual and for his role in the French adventure film Alerte en Méditerranée/Alert in the Mediterranean (Leo Joannon, 1938) with Pierre Fresnay, he was awarded the Grand prix du cinéma français. After the outbreak of the Second World War, he limited his film work. He first accepted a commitment to the Vienna Kammerspiele and was artistic director of the Vienna City Theater from 1940 to 1944. After the war, he appeared mainly at the Raimundtheater and at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna. During the 1950s, he returned to the cinema and played in German and Austrian productions as well as in several Spanish films. These included La mestiza (José María Ochoa, 1956) with Lida Baarova, El batallón de las sombras/The Battalion of Shadows (Manuel Mur Oti, 1957) and Horas de pánico/Day of Fear (Donald Taylor, 1957). In 1963, he appeared as the King in the American-German adventure film Captain Sindbad (Byron Haskin, 1963) featuring Guy Williams. He made his last screen appearances during the 1970s. His last film was the excellent historical war drama Il deserto dei tartari/The Desert of the Tartars (Valerio Zurlini, 1976), starring Jacques Perrin and Vittorio Gassman. On TV, his final appearance was in an episode of the Krimi series Tatort (1978). Rolf Wanka died in 1982 in Munich, West Germany. He was married to Ilse Vogl and actress Friedl Czepa. From a liaison with Helene Amon his son Rudolf Wanka was born in 1954, whom he adopted at the age of 4 years. In 1954, he met Brigitta Dahlem, who became his third wife, known as Lili Wanka. In 1961, their daughter, actress Irina Wanka, was born.
Sources: Wikipedia (English and German), and IMDb.
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A lovely bit of police history from 150+ years ago!
These are the original plans for the police station buildings at:
Jeantown (Lochcarron), Ullapool, and Poolewe,
Fortrose
Stornoway and Tain.
Those plans had been drawn up in February 1860 and received Government approval later that same year. It took another SIX years - SEVEN in the case of Stornoway - to put these plans into reality !
It must have gladdened Kinloch’s heart to finally see these buildings in use, So far I have identified that those in Fortrose and Stornoway are still standing, although now in private hands having long since been sold off as larger buildings were required for police purposes over the years. As to the others, I suspect they have also survived – some of them may have been damp but they were all built to last!
Here’s a wee bit of the background, as gleaned from HMI Reports.
The Police (Scotland) Act of 1857 required each County and Burgh to establish an efficient police force or to unite with a neighbouring burgh/County for police purposes. To ensure efficiency, the Act created the post of Her Majesty’s Inspector of constabulary for Scotland, and his remit was to ANNUALLY visit (and to inspect and report upon) each County and Burgh police force in Scotland - excluding Orkney and Shetland, their remoteness apparently not requiring inspection. If he gave a verdict of Efficient then central government met 25 per cent of the cost of the force’s maintenance. Inefficient – NO government grant whatsoever for policing for that year.
In the inaugural Report, produced in May 1859, and which covered the period from 15.3.1858 to 15.3.1859, the original Inspector, Colonel John Kinloch outlined his duty : to 'visit and enquire into the State and Efficiency of the Police appointed for every County and Burgh, and also into the State of the Police Stations, Charge Rooms, Cells, or Lock-ups, and other Premises occupied for the Use of such Police'.
Mr Kinloch's first visit to Ross & Cromarty revealed that no less than FOUR Police forces existed. Ross-shire had a Force, as did the Burgh of Dingwall. Cromarty-shire (the easternmost part of the Black Isle) also had two, one for the burgh of Cromarty and one for the rural area (which County then also had various little portions lying in various parts of rural Wester Ross).
He reported that there was only one Constable in the Burgh of Cromarty, and that gentleman was in fact the only policeman in the whole of Cromartyshire. This was patently ridiculous and Kinloch was emphatic in recommending that the Burgh and county of Cromarty should both merge with Ross-shire.
The Dingwall Town Council appeared to have realised that its small Force was of little effect, and Kinloch had been assured that the Burgh was about ready to unite with Ross-shire. It was also noted that "there is a lock-up under the old Town House, but more like a prison of former times". In other words there was a location in which arrested persons could be detained but it was devoid of any convenience and probably insanitary and disease-ridden as a result.
One year later, in April 1860, Kinloch again put pen to paper on completion of his year-long travels around Scotland. Nothing had changed. none of the three smaller Police Authorities in Ross & Cromarty were keen to relinquish their independence.
There had been trouble among the herring fishing community at Stornoway. There were only three officers on the Island of Lewis, and they had to cope without anywhere secure to keep prisoners. Having arrested the rioters, they were obliged to simply keep them in the street for a time. This would merely serve to encourage the others to attempt to free them again. So in the end the police had had to take the their custodies back to their own private lodgings until a magistrate's warrant could be obtained to lodge them in the prison.
In his 1861 Report, Colonel Kinloch cites 'a weak point of our Police management' in the failure to provide suitable housing for men in the County constabularies. He suggested that the Police Committee should provide loans over twenty years to enable the men to purchase housing. Police authorities appeared not to be grasping the nettle, in view of the expense involved.
Delaying tactics were employed when Chief Officers raised the matter. The subject was deferred from one meeting to another, and all that happened was that the projected costs of providing accommodation for rural officers were simply rising year by year.
Kinloch also commented on the general scarcity of accommodation for the officers throughout the area. So Ross-shire received an 'inefficient' report, which meant no Government grant. The same applied in respect of the 1864 Report. The Force needed more men and better pay. Accommodation was also important.
Invergordon, probably largely because of the railway works, and Tain had now been provided with cells, but not so in Stornoway. The bobbies in Lewis were now having to take their custodies to a public house until a committal warrant could be obtain to consign them to prison.
When Kinloch next put pen to paper for the year ending March 1863, he made special reference to the fact that five years had now elapsed since he had proposed the Burghs of Dingwall and Cromarty and the County of Cromartyshire should unite with Ross-shire. He bemoaned the lack of progress on the subject. Cromartyshire still had no force, and Cromarty Burgh remained with one man and Dingwall with two. Kinloch also commented on the general scarcity of accommodation for the officers throughout the area.
So Ross-shire received an 'inefficient' report, which meant no Government grant. The same applied in respect of the 1864 Report. The Force needed more men and better pay. Accommodation was also important.
On Lewis three more men had been appointed. Her Majesty's Inspector highlights the state of crime on the mainland and on Lewis. On the mainland portion of the County (population 55,500) 195 people had been arrested. On Lewis (population 20,000) there had been 205 arrests. There was most definitely a need for lock-up facilities in Stornoway. Meanwhile the men had to find their own accommodation as the Police authority was not providing any houses for the officers to dwell in. It would require more men and better pay before he would certify the Force as efficient.
In 1865 he also identified eight locations in Ross-shire where new stations were required. He also suggested that there was a need for a new station to be provided at Kyle, the terminus of the proposed railway from Dingwall.
His 1866 report, for the period up to March of that year, recorded that Dingwall Burgh had finally agreed to unite with County. Now that Dingwall was part of the Ross-shire Force, things could only improve. Six new Police Stations were under construction around the county - which was progress indeed - but none of these were in Lewis.
BY 1867 Kinloch was able to report that the new Stations had been completed and occupied at Dingwall, Fortrose, Gairloch, Jeantown, Tain and Ullapool. Unfortunately some of them were damp as they had been built of sea stone with the walls neither lathed nor plastered.
In year 1868 Ross-shire got an unqualified report of being efficient. The Superintendent and 5 men at Stornoway appeared to be doing a good job, and their new Station was almost finished. AT LAST!