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Good morning, ya'll! I hope this last week of 2010 rocks for you! Not surprisingly, the overnight temperature drop into the 20's had the warmer Gulf waters steaming this morning...and the sand crunched like it was slightly frozen! Tonight it is supposed to drop into the teens...no doubt, it will be another chillin' experience at the beach sunrise...but Lord willing, I'll be there!
WomenCraft is a community driven social enterprise, based in Ngara, Kagera region, north western Tanzania. Ngara is a remote rural district bordering Rwanda and Burundi, far from Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam.
WomenCraft works with rural Tanzanian and Burundian women to become contributing members of a successful fair-trade enterprise. The high quality products handcrafted by WomenCraft’s artisans are bought and sold according to international fair-trade practices. By paying its artisans fair wages, WomenCraft envisions using its eventual profits to provide services to its artisans and the surrounding community.
Through their work with WomenCraft, the women build business and practical skills so that they can take greater ownership of the enterprise.
WomenCraft strives to partner with Burundian women, and works with many repatriated refugee artisans who until recently lived in Tanzanian refugee camps and who have now returned to Burundi to rebuild their lives.
WomenCraft is committed to sustainable social and economic change while preserving the natural environment.
A whole bunch more from the Driven Show. Finished my processing today, and delivered them to the clients.
If you have driven along Shore drive recently, you may have noticed the new mural being painted “Gateway to the Bay” by artists from Ham and Cheese Studios in Baltimore MD. The site is located on the Shore Drive underpass at route 13 in the Virginia Beach. The large-scale murals include the 12 columns and headers on both sides of the Shore Drive underpass. There are also abutment walls on each side of the road. The total approximate surface area for the project is 13,128 square feet. The artists are working with the City of Virginia Beach Cultural Affairs Department in collaboration with the Bayfront Advisory Commission
Photography - Craig McClure
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The self-confident and power driven Dwight. Assistant (whoops Assistant to the) Regional Manager, Michael. He's a suck-up who likes bobble heads.
This image was scanned from one in Jim Comerford's collection of photographs of Richmond Main Colliery, c.1915 - c.1975. [38 prints and 41 negatives.] This archive is held in Cultural Collections at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
If you have any information about this photograph, please contact us.
1976 Lola T332C driven by Rick Parsons during Qualifying for Group 9, F5000 on Friday at the 2012 U.S. Vintage Grand Prix.
If you are interested in this, or any of my other photos from this event, please visit my website. prints.swankmotorarts.com/f3121843
I'd love to be able to OCR my grocery receipt to track dietary habits while reporting on the price of food across the city.
Riley Sprite driven by Nicholas Lees during Friday practice for the Brooklands Trophy at the 2012 Goodwood Revival.
These Cattle were filmed in Chicago's Stockyards in July 1897. Filming was done by Thomas Edison's Movie Company for their series on the Erie Railroad company. The stockyards were built in 1865 and were a massive industrial project. Rail lines from across the Western states transported cattle, hogs and sheep to Chicago, where they were slaughtered, packed, and shipped all over the country. The stockyards could slaughter 280 cows in an hour. They encompassed 500 acres along the Chicago river and an outlet which became known as "Bubbly creek" for the methane bubbles rising from the decomposing flesh thrown into it.
The Stockyards developed industrial assembly line methods well before Henry Ford. Most workers were given one simple task, making it easy to give the jobs to unskilled immigrant laborers, who desperately wanted the jobs despite the horrid working conditions.
By the time this film was made in 1897, the Chicago Stockyards were producing 82% of the nations meat, shipping it throughout the country via newly-invented refrigerated shipping cars.
Video Source: Library of Congress Archives
Caption Source:
Chicago History Files www.chicagohs.org/history/stockyard/stock1.html
'How to Build Brick TV and Movie Cars' - INSTRUCTIONS AVAILABLE
The Pursuit Special, also referred to as the V8 Interceptor, is the iconic black muscle car (featuring a distinctive supercharger) driven by the titular character during much of the Mad Max franchise, where it appears in three of four films.
Mad Max
The Pursuit Special MFP Interceptor as it appeared in Mad Max. The famous Pursuit Special is a modified 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT. Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) is offered the black Pursuit Special, referred to as a V8 Interceptor, as an incentive to stay on the force as their top pursuit man after he reveals his desire to resign. Although Max turns the offer down, he later uses the black car to exact his revenge on an outlaw motorcycle gang who killed his wife and child.
Origins
The vehicle started out as a standard white 351 cu in (5.8 L) 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe when in 1976, filmmakers Byron Kennedy and George Miller began pre-production on Mad Max. The movie's art director Jon Dowding designed the Interceptor and commissioned Melbourne based car customizers Graf-X International to modify the GT Falcon.
Modifications
The main modifications are the black paint scheme as well as roof and boot spoilers, wheel arch flares, front nose cone and air-dam designed by Arcadipane (marketed as the "Concorde" style). There were also eight individual exhaust side pipes (only two of them being functional, others appeared to be working because of the vibrations the first two created). The most famous feature of the car is a non-functional Weiand 8 1/2 supercharger protruding through the bonnet.
Instructions to build the Lotus in conventional car, and conversion to the submarine is available in my publised book of LEGO instructions - 'How to Build Brick TV and Movie Cars'.
This model is also posted for this months #mocaround81 to the theme #herosandvillians hosted on instagram by @f1elevenbricks
The Type 57 Bugatti, introduced in 1934, marked Jean Bugatti's emergence as Bugatti's leader and creative force. It was the first new model built under his direction and it incorporated many features that were new to Bugatti. Its dual overhead camshaft eight-cylinder engine had dimensions of 72x100mm, offering 3,257cc displacement. The crankshaft ran in five main bearings. The camshafts were driven by a train of helical-tooth gears at the engine's rear with a further crankshaft bearing behind them. Finger cam followers minimized side thrust on the valve stems.
The Type 57 also marked Bugatti's first use of a transmission fixed to the engine crankcase and a single plate clutch. The top three gears in the four-speed gearbox were constant mesh. Jean created a novel independent front suspension system using transverse leaf springs for the first two examples of the Type 57 before Le Patron spied it and insisted it be replaced by a proper Bugatti hollow tubular live axle. Thenceforth suspension was traditional Bugatti semi-elliptical front and reversed quarter-elliptical rear leaf springs with cable-operated mechanical drum brakes.
Much of the Type 57's commercial success may be attributed to Jean Bugatti's sensitive, flowing coachwork, which graced the most famous of the chassis' examples.
But, by no means all of the cars were clothed with factory derived or commissioned coachwork, and some of the most striking designs that can be seen on Concours lawns the world over came from the coachbuilders' one-upmanship in what was clearly the zenith of coachwork design before the interruption of war.
Despite financial travail, development of the Type 57 continued with the introduction of a stiffened frame and rubber-mounted engine along with the supercharged 160hp Type 57C in 1936. In 1938 the nearly unthinkable happened in Molsheim, when Bugatti finally adopted Lockheed hydraulically actuated brakes and replaced the beautiful and lightweight but expensive aluminum-spoked wheels and brake drums with Rudge-Whitworth center-lock wire wheels and separate brake drums.
The car
The extremely handsome, one off coachbuilt Bugatti presented here is accredited by Bugatti experts to be a collaboration of its original owner with the Swiss coachbuilder Graber who were one of the leading Swiss coachbuilders of their day.
Most of Graber's 50 workers were skilled specialists, and the firm regularly displayed their latest creations on their stand at the Geneva Salon. It could be said that they were less flashy than some of the French coachbuilders, less advanced than certain Italian efforts but they were definitely of higher quality than most and displaying the well-balanced design preferred by their wealthy clientele. The success of Hermann Graber's company may be judged by the fact that it perpetuated comfortably into the 1970s, long after many of its pre-war contemporaries had ceased.
According to information supplied by Bugattiste Kees Jansen, 57443 was completed by the Bugatti Works in September 1936 and was sold in chassis form to the Bucar Bugatti agency, who had operations in both Berlin and Zurich. This particular order was for the Grob Agency in the Zurich Canton of Horgen. 57443 is one of a handful of Type 57s that were supplied at this time all with chassis numbers in close proximity of each other, notably, 57444, 57446 and 57447. 57443, 57444 and 57447 were all to be equipped with coachwork by Graber. Jansen's records state that the rolling chassis was driven over 150km to Hermann Graber's coachbuilding works on September 21, 1936.
The car's original owner is said to have been an architect and was therefore responsible for the design, while the coachbuilder was for its construction. A number of its features including the hood louver treatment are common with other Graber bodies.
The result was a dramatically different automobile to the factory offered Pillarless sedan, which was arguably a victim of practicality over style. The car here is a clever, set-back, close-coupled design retaining the popular scalloped side panels synonymous with Bugattis, and dispensing with running boards to accentuate separate 'teardrop' or pontoon fenders. It is unquestionably a success, and it is perhaps only at second glance that one notices the presence of the secondary door. With the spare tire set at the back of the car, the full design of its side from its quarter-batched hood louvers backward is uncompromised, always a sporting styling touch. Another particular feature which is rather interesting are the long 'eared' wheel hub spinners, which it is said were to make wheel removal easier for a lady owner early in its career.
Descriptions & pictures by bonhams & en.wheelsage & flickr & coachbuild
I had car troubles tonight.
Either the battery is hosed, I have a loose connection or my alternator is dead. The dreaded "click, click, click" came rapidly stuttering when I turned the key after filling up at the gas pump. That sinking feeling of "Oh Crap!" came on swiftly. A couple of calls later and I had jumper cables on and started it back up like nothing was wrong.
My solution: go for a ride on the highway to juice up the battery.
Road Trip!
I brought my camera bag up to the front seat and got the camera out and prepped for action, should any come my way. Then I took off for a jaunt North up I-55 to Elkhart, Illinois. It's about 20 miles up from where I started, and a good enough trip to give the battery, if that's what the problem is, a charging.
On the way there, the setting sun had my eye looking for a great landscape scene. Off in the distance I saw this clump of trees at a slight rise in the flat prairie farm landscape. A nice tableau with the setting sun and the clear blue sunset sky.
Down went my window and I fired off several captures, carefully paying more attention to the road flying by at 70 miles per hour than to my framing. This one came out best.
I especially like the reflection of the sun off both the frontage road and the lanes of the highway leading to the sun, then the trees. The blue to orange sky is icing on the cake.
I got back home, backed into the driveway just in case, and turned off the car.
I tried to start it back up immediately: "Click, Click, Click"
Looks like my Saturday will involve a bit of car repair.
Edward King of Anglo Spanish Imports is trying out an AYA side-by-side and a Rizzini over-and-under shotgun at The Vale Shoot in Suffolk, UK. The partridges are Spanish too - they come from game farmer Altube. Edward is using Hull Cartridges. This picture is free use. Please credit: Fieldsports Channel. Watch the film youtu.be/kDIIUhwMUS8
Edward King of Anglo Spanish Imports is trying out an AYA side-by-side and a Rizzini over-and-under shotgun at The Vale Shoot in Suffolk, UK. The partridges are Spanish too - they come from game farmer Altube. Edward is using Hull Cartridges. This picture is free use. Please credit: Fieldsports Channel. Watch the film youtu.be/kDIIUhwMUS8
Team driven development, updated dev doc, usability team, dev snapshots, accessibility team. www.archive.org/details/keynote_dries. Not a great photo, but interesting to see Dries' direction on this. The accessibility team has built the following wiki to help shape movement towards D8.
2013 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged Autobiography: Detailed By Driven Perfection Of Weymouth, MA. www.DrivenPerfection.com
Harry Dean's Bakery horse & cart, driven by Charles Goldsworthy. Dean's shop was on corner of Murray Street and Walker Place (58 Murray Street)
The Dean family bakery was initially operated for many years by Herbert Dean, then upon his death in 1892 it was carried on by his widow Philipa Dean and son 'Harry' Henry Knight Dean.
*Source: Bunyip (date unknown) - photo from Lois Clayson - we thank Bev Burke for sharing her extensive collection of Gawler newspaper cuttings.)