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UPDATE: The issue has been resolved without fuss! Ebay removed the listing with my picture and the seller removed the other doll picture on his own. Thanks so much to anybody who reported him. I really hope this doesn't happen again to anybody else, but I will keep an eye out and will inform owners if I come across anything. It's a relief to know that Ebay take this sort of thing seriously :)
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Just putting a warning out there as it has come to my attention that a seller on ebay, ukgiftshop, is stealing owner pictures of bjds to print on phone cases to sell!
As you can see, sadly one of my pictures of Hayden has been stolen. I'm really upset as I hate the idea of somebody profiting from my work, but people seem to think that they can do what they want with our pictures. I have contacted ebay customer support to get some advice on getting this listing removed, but I would appreciate it if more people could report this listing and the other image that has been stolen.
Here is the listing for Hayden:
*listing removed! Thank you ebay customer support*
And here is a listing for another doll who I don't recognise. If anybody knows this doll's owner, please link them to this:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DOLL-DOLLS-405-HARD-PHONE-CASE-APPLE-I...
I am asking for as many people as possible to report these. I'm worried that this seller will steal more and more pictures, so we need to raise this to ebay's attention. People can't just steal our hard work and make money from it :(
Link to my original picture:
www.flickr.com/photos/army-of-me/5193478688/in/set-721576...
Girl in a misty forest. Nothing to do but sleep but she is not not tired.
The original drawing is also available for sale if you are interested (email me at funiscool@gmail.com for info)
I was graced with having the opportunity to be put in a Brickjournal magazine, and there are some other great builders in it as well such as Lego7 and Mike Nieves
After a 10 year hiatus for fundraising and a rebuild, the Frisco 1630 is back in service at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, Illinois as of 5/24/2014! Delayed in the morning by a brake issue that was fixed, the steam crew worked for 24 hours a day for 3 days to have it running for Memorial Day weekend. And it ran flawlessly on two different runs on Saturday.
This is part of a set of photos from this day. You can view all of them here:
Imagine living caged. Imagine a huge wall being built around your home. Imagine this wall destroying trees and causing homes to be demolished. Possibly yours. What would you do?
The Israeli Wall has been comdemned by the UN, and yet it is still being built. The Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign’s most recent map of the Wall’s path, finalized November 2003, reveals that if completed in its entirety, nearly 50% of the West Bank population will be affected by the Wall through loss of land, imprisonment into ghettos, or isolation into Israeli de facto annexed areas .
Israel maintains that the Wall is a temporary structure to physically separate the West Bank from Israel and thus to prevent suicide attacks on Israeli citizens. However the wall’s location, (in some places reaching up to 6km inside Palestinian territory), and projected length, (currently 750km, despite a border with Israel of less than 200km), suggest it is more realistically an additional effort to confiscate Palestinian land, facilitate further colony expansion and unilaterally redraw geopolitical borders all the while encouraging an exodus of Palestinians by denying them the ability to earn a living from their land, reach their schools or work places, access adequate water resources, or reach essential health care. (http://www.palestinemonitor.org/factsheet/wall_fact_sheet.htm/)
A DYING GHETTO
(Exerpt from Chris Hedges' Wall of Horrors)
Qalqiliya is a ghetto. It is completely surrounded by the wall. There is one Israeli military checkpoint to let people into the West Bank or back home again. Only those with special Israeli-issued permits can go in and out of Qalqiliya. It is not the Lodz ghetto or the Warsaw ghetto, but it is a ghetto that would be recognizable to the Jews who were herded into walled enclaves by Pope IV in 1555 and stranded there for generations. Qalqiliya, like all ghettos, is dying. And it is being joined by dozens of other ringed ghettos as the serpentine barrier snaking its way through up and down two sides of the West Bank gobbles up Palestinian land and lays down nooses around Palestinian cities, towns, villages and fields.
Construction began on the barrier in 2002 with the purported intent of safeguarding Israel from suicide bombers and other types of attacks. Although it nominally runs along the 1949 Jordanian-Israeli armistice/Green Line that demarcates the boundary between Israel and the Palestinian-held West Bank, around 80 percent of the barrier actually cuts into Palestinian territories --at some points by as much as 20 kilometers.
If and when the barrier is completed, several years from now, it will see the West Bank cut up into three large enclaves and numerous small ringed ghettos. The three large enclaves will include in the south the Bethlehem/Hebron area and in the north the Jenin/Nablus and Ramallah areas.
B'tselem, a leading Israeli human rights organization that documents conditions in the occupied territories, recently estimated that the barrier will eventually stretch 703 miles around the West Bank, about 450 of which are already completed or under construction. (The Berlin Wall, for comparison, ran 96 miles.) B'tselem also estimates that 500,000 West Bank residents will be directly affected by the barrier (by virtue of residing in areas completely encircled by the wall; by virtue of residing west of the barrier and thus in de facto Israeli territory; or by virtue of residing in East Jerusalem, where Palestinians effectively cannot cross into West Jerusalem).
I stand on Qalqiliya's main street. There is little traffic. Shop after shop is shuttered and closed. The heavy metal doors are secured to the ground with thick padlocks. There are signs in Hebrew and Arabic, fading reminders of a time when commerce was possible. There were, before the wall was built, 42,000 people living here. Mayor Maa'rouf Zahran says at least 6,000 have left. Many more, with the unemployment rate close to 70%, will follow. Over the tip of the wall, in the distance, I can see the tops of the skyscrapers in Tel Aviv. It feels as if it is a plague town, quarantined. Israeli officials, after a few suicide bombers slipped into Israel from Qalqiliya, began to refer to the town as a "hotel for terrorists."
There are hundreds of acres of farmland on the other side of the wall, some of the best farmland in the West Bank, which is harder and harder to reach given the gates, checkpoints and closures. There are some 32 farming villages on the outskirts of Qalqiliya, cut off from their land, sinking into poverty and despair. Olive groves, with trees that are hundreds of years old, have been uprooted and bulldozed into the ground. The barrier is wiping out the middle class in the West Bank, the last bulwark in the West Bank against Islamic fundamentalism. It is plunging the West Bank into the squalor that defines life in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinians struggle to live on less than $ 2 a day. It is the Africanization of Palestinian land...
If the barrier is being built for security, why is so much of the West Bank being confiscated by Israel? Why is the barrier plunging in deep loops into the West Bank to draw far-flung settlements into Israel? Why are thousands of acres of the most fertile farmland and much of the West Bank's aquifers being seized by Israel?
The barrier does not run along the old 1967 border or the 1949 armistice line between Israel and the Arab states, which, in the eyes of the United Nations, delineates Israel and the West Bank. It will contain at least 50% of the West Bank, including the whole of the western mountain aquifer, which supplies the West Bank Palestinians with over half their water. The barrier is the most catastrophic blow to the Palestinians since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
The barrier itself mocks any claim that it is temporary. It costs $ 1 million per mile and will run over $ 2 billion by the time it is completed. It will cut the entire 224-mile length of the West Bank off from Israel, but because of its diversions into the West Bank to incorporate Palestinian land it will be about 400 miles in length. A second barrier is being built on the Jordan River side of the West Bank. To look at a map of the barrier is to miss the point. The barrier interconnects with every other piece of Israeli-stolen real estate in Palestinian territory. And when all the pieces are in place the Israelis will no doubt offer up the little ringed puddles of poverty and despair and misery to the world as a Palestinian state.
A 'glossy' brochure issued by British Rail's InterCity sector and pinned on the introduction of the new Class 91 electric locomotives and Mark IV coaches that came with the completion of the electrification of the East Coast Main Line to Edinburgh. After an introduction from Director, Dr. John Pideaux, the brochure looks at the overall 'product' serving Scotland on both the East and West Coast Main Lines as well as some Cross-Country, Sleeper and Motorail offerings. There are fine images of the Class 125 High Speed Trains that served, and continued to serve, the ECML after electrification south of Edinburgh on the north of Edinburgh services.
The Class 91 locomotives - "Mallards" and the Mk IV coaches have had a long and generally successful life on the ECML and are now only found on London - Leeds services and I, for one, will mourn their passing. Sadly, the replacement Azumas are retrograde in terms of passenger ambience by almost any score. The brochure also notes that InterCity was a highly successful sector of then then nationalised British Rail but equally sadly this too was destroyed in the privatisation process in the 1990s and the iconic InterCity brand lost.
I think she is my favorite Agnes and my favorite of all from the convention. Her coloring is just lovely.
The tenth edition of our paper is now out now and available to purchase at Counter-Print: www.counter-print.co.uk/book_tags/counter-print-items/?bo...
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DUNNS PLEASURE RESORT
Date: Circa 1910
Source Type: Postcard
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown (#9)
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: It is believed the the left side of this postcard image shows the north side, or Porter County side, along the Kankakee River. If this is in fact true, then Burrow's Camp is the camp that is partially visible in this image.
The original Dunn's Bridge was erected during the 1880s by Isaac Dunn, a native of Maine residing in Jasper County, as a means of moving his farming equipment from one side of the Kankakee River to the other side.
In an article published in the October 23, 1897, issue of The Westchester Tribune, an individual signing themselves as “A Taxpayer” had become annoyed with the fact that P. E. Lane of the Lane Bridge & Iron Works, who was from Illinois, was receiving numerous contracts to construct bridge spans throughout Porter County. “A Taxpayer” complained that the county commissioners were allowing “old iron of the World’s Fair, corroded, rusty, and full of holes” to be “dumped on the people of Porter county.”
In this same article, it is also mentioned that the auditor of Porter County had paid the Lane Bridge & Iron Works on November 13, 1895, for the construction of “Dunn’s bridge.” Thus, Dunn’s Bridge was constructed in November and December of 1895 by the Lane Bridge & Iron Works using iron originating from buildings that were razed after the conclusion of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.
Between 1895 and 1897, the Lane Bridge & Iron Works had constructed at least six other bridges using discarded World’s Fair iron in Porter County.
Three of these bridges were located in Westchester Township, one being the bridge over Coffee Creek in Chesterton where today’s Porter Avenue now spans this creek, another spanning the Little Calumet River on today's Brummitt Road (just west of the Brummitt School), and the third being located just west of the present day Howe Road bridge over the Little Calumet River.
One thirty-six foot long trestle bridge was constructed in Morgan Township over Crooked Creek on present day Indiana State Road 49, just north of County Road 500 South. Another bridge was built in Washington Township just west of present day County Road 400 East along Indiana State Road 2. Finally, in Jackson Township, the Lane Bridge & Iron Company constructed a bridge where present day Mander Road spans Coffee Creek, which was replaced in the 1970s.
Dunn’s Bridge is the only known surviving bridge that the Lane Bridge & Iron Works built in Porter County. In 1895, Porter County paid Lane Bridge & Iron Works $3,613.45 for the materials to construct Dunn's Bridge. It is unclear from the source of this information as to whether this represented one-half of the materials costs, with Jasper County paying the other one-half, or if this amount was the total cost of labor and materials.
The iron bridge span seen in this image was erected to replace the original wood bridge structure built by Isaac Dunn. It has long been rumored that the Dunn's Bridge iron framing was constructed from iron trusses taken from the world's first Ferris wheel that operated at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. This rumor is untrue since the top of the bridge arch flattens out and, more importantly, the 1893 Ferris wheel from the World's Columbian Exposition was removed to St. Louis, Missouri, for use at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition - being dynamited on May 11, 1906, and sold for scrap. Thus, the bridge's construction predated the dismantling of the Ferris wheel by many years.
The bridge trusses did indeed originate from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, but they originated from one or more of the domed or barrel-arched structures that were dismantled after the exposition. One persistent theory is that the arches for Dunn's Bridge were obtained from the dismantled Administration Building from the World's Columbian Exposition.
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The following newspaper item concerning Burrow's Camp appears in the July 29, 1915, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
Citizens Complain of Burrow's Camp.
Burrows’ camp, on the Kankakee, where Mr. Burrows hands out the refreshments from his saloon to many customers, is termed by some people of Jasper and Pulaski counties the black eye of this region. Many letters have been pouring into this county [Porter County] protesting against a saloon license, which may or may not be granted to Burrows at the next regular meeting of the county commissioners. The matter has been pending since two months ago. The commissioners have not indicated what will be done in regard to it.
Pulaski county is dry. So is Jasper. Hundreds of men, thirsting for the forbidden beverages in their own counties, come to Burrows' camp, the remonstrators claim, and families are distressed, homes broken up, and accidents to the merrymakers occur on the joyrides. Burrows, in the face of the accusations, declares that he runs the business in compliance with the law.
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The following newspaper item concerning Burrow's Camp appears in the July 11, 1918, issue of The Chesterton Tribune:
CHESTERTON LOCALS.
John Smith, in charge of the resort at Burrow's camp, on the Kankakee river, was arrested Thursday by Sheriff Forney on a charge of selling liquor. Nathan Samuels was acting as a bartender for Smith at the resort. The officers caught them in the act and found a quantity of liquor on hand. The resort at Burrow's camp is owned by a son of Smith, who is in the army. Both men were brought to Valparaiso and released on bonds. F. B. Parks was retained as counsel, and he will endeavor to prove that the liquid dispensed was not liquor. Prosecutor Jensen filed an affidavit against the men Friday morning and they will probably be bound over to the circuit court.
Sources:
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; December 25, 1897; Volume 14, Number 37, Page 1, Columns 1-2. Column titled "The News of the Week. Taxpayer of Valparaiso Throws a Bombshell Into Camp by Claiming the County Commissioners Have a New Bird to Throw Money at."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; July 29, 1915; Volume 32, Number 19, Page 8, Column 4. Column titled "Citizens Complain of Burrow's Camp."
The Chesterton Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; July 11, 1918; Volume 35, Number 17, Page 7, Column 5. Column titled "Chesterton Locals."
Nichols, Kay Folsom. 1965 The Kankakee: Chronicle of an Indiana River and Its Fabled Marshes. Brooklyn, New York: Theodore Gaus' Sons, Inc. 209 p.
The Westchester Tribune, Chesterton, Porter County, Indiana; October 23, 1897; Volume 14, Number 28, Page 1, Columns 3-5. Column titled "Those Iron Bridges. A Correspondent Asks Pertinent Questions About Them. And is Answered With the Testimony Given by Chairman Fulton of the County Board of Commissioners, Who Makes Some Startling Admissions."
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A peek into Bensenville Yard revealed a pair of Indiana SD9043MACs in a shootable location from the southbound I-294 overpass; so it was time to jump on the Tri-State and shoot from the breakdown lane.
Well worth the toll.
W.G. Bagnall built 'austerity' tank engine number 75254 was running at Locomotion on demonstration brake van runs.
The 1945 built engine went into War Department use before being sold (like so many of the type) into NCB use in 1963 at Comrie Colliery, Fife. It is now in the ownership of the SRPS at Bo’ness.
I'd been to see the Royal Wedding and was wandering through Piccadilly when I came across this beautiful dog helping her owner sell 'The Big Issue'. I've come across many The Big Issue sellers with dogs but this was the first time I'd seen one helping. For those who don't know The Big Issue exists to offer homeless and vulnerably housed people the opportunity to earn a legitimate income.
Issue SIX is finally here! This Quarter’s theme was “PASTIME”. Featuring an interview with UBERKRAAFT. We have contributions from Vaughn Fender, Chris Piascik, Josh Lafayette, Kyle Mosher, Hugo Diaz and the Frinton Press Crew amongst others. A big thanks to all who have contributed and helped put this issue together. Check it out! Cover Art by UBERKRAAFT.
view online: peculiarbliss.com/Peculiarbliss-Magazine-Issue-Six