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Progress of works in February 2014 for the removal of the level crossing at Springvale. The bridge deck is complete and the new depressed line is being excavated and the new station is under construction, immediately to the north of the old one.
Works are to be completed during 2014.
Existing level crossing looking in UP direction. The lowered line is to the right of shot between the existing line and the former Emptor distillation plant far right of shot. Note temporary 2-track cantilever overhead structures have been installed to allow for construction to occur close to the existing tracks. An additional road to access the Westall yards from this end, located to the to the right, was also removed to allow for the new line.
Normally when the children get thier report cards we go to Chuck E Cheese's as a reward for thier hard work. This semester we decided to change things up a bit and headed to Family Bowl Away in Butler for "Cyber Bowling". It was such an enjoyable time. The black lights made need for some creativity when it came to taking pictures. Indoor settings didn't quite work, night settings were even worse. I don't know if I ever found the right setting, but I did give it a ernest effort. This made choosing today's picture tough. I ended up going for this one. It shows everyone (some are teeny tiny in the back and blurry) but everyone is there. As is thier personalities..
Aubriaunna whom I commonly refer to as "Boo" is definately a poser. She wants attenion, and she knows just how to make "cutzie" work to her advantage.
Nathen, my "Buddy" is such a ball of energy. Always on the go, alway keeping me on my toes. Yet he is the most compassionate little guy ever. He was the one carring all the bowling balls (not just ours everyone elses' too) back to thier "homes".
Avery, my sweet "Angel" is finding new ways to discover and express herself with each day that passes. Not nearly as outgoing as the other two, but she has this "something" about her. An ambition to move forward, a willingness to push ahead.
Brian, finally a part of "my family" and I ever so happy about it. Sometimes tings take time to work... I am willing to give time :o)
Debbie, my mother whom I have always called "George". She has taken tremendous responciblity in taking care of Boo. I know that when the need arrives, she is there for the kids.
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Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a Buddhist pagoda located in southern Xi'an and it has seven levels
Level Three:
There is a Bronze statue of the Buddha coated in gold. This is one of the most valuable items in the Pagoda. Every visitor must bow at the Buddha. On the walls, apart from the picture of the Buddha, there are calligraphies and poems mainly by famous scholars from Tang Dynasty.
The bubble or spirit level was invented in 1661 and was first used on telescopes and surveying instruments. The bubble level became a carpenter’s tool in the mid-19th century when they began to be produced in factories.
This beautiful example of a level is constructed of hardwood and brass. It was made by the H.M. Pool Company in Easton, Massachusetts. The company was originally started by brothers John and Horace Pool in 1828 but became the H.M. Pool Company in 1841 when Horace bought out John.
by Kate M
"Works on Paper by Yasuko Hagiwara & Mariko Suzuki",
For two weeks the work of Yasuko and Mariko were showcased at Eye Level and Victor Osborne window displays. A work distinct for parting from an analysis and creation of equally strong atmospheres.
Printmaking and Mixed Media artist; Yasuko Hagiwara, known for her intricate Viscosity technique, manages to make a study of microscopic worlds blown out to read nature under a supreme gradient of colors with transparent qualities. On an equidistant level, Suzuki presents a bright and colorful contrast with her large scale drawings and small and detailed sketches that host episodes of diverse battles, where the organisms partially slide on the visual frame she decides to show us. In these drawings, objects and creatures from nature can be found on a massive pile that interacts with characters under an environment dipped on narrative qualities, where the stories that she creates are influenced by the most recent changes on our global stage.
Building at a right angle to the view? Not a problem.
Yes, the window did open but not enough to get more than an arm with a camera on the end of it through, composing and lining up a level photo was tricky. And cold.
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Christmas 2014: "Desert Weirdness"
December 31: the real loneliest road in America; winter weirdness along the Colorado on New Year's Eve.
This C eagle came really low over coyote summit after fighting F-15's from the 65th AGRS.There was a total of 4 F-15C/D's from the 433rd WPS that ingressed with this eagle.This was not a Red Flag flight, it was just a normal Weapons School sortie
This box was at the time believed to be the oldest signalbox in the Manchester area dating from 1866. It was built by Saxby & Farmer for the Lancashire & Yorkshire railway.
Praktica LTL-3 with 50mm lens.
The recently released MP-56 is Trailbreaker, the character that I honestly barely remember being on the show. I remember his G1 toy though.. everyone always kept losing the fists.
Trailbreaker is an officially licensed Toyota Hilux, a vehicle that I've never actually seen in real life. Mind ou, Toyotas were really scarce here in Canada back in the 80s, and it's not like this particular model has a cult following like the Celica did. There are options to make the vehicle mode more toon accurate, which would involve swapping the front bumper piece and adding some stickers, but since my sticker game is terrible I opted to pass on this little endeavor. There's also a little radar dish you can attach to the roof of the vehicle mode.
One immediate thing that fascinated me was that this figure was "Made in China", which means it's not made in the same factory as those horrible Unified Product lines. Also fascinating is the fact that "Made is China" is printed on a sticker and stuck on the box.
Transformation into robot mode is relatively straight forward, though the backpack gave me a bit of trouble due to my inability to read Japanese - eventually figured it out that you needed to deform the rear end of the car a bit to make things connect.
Much like the classic 80's toy, this figure is pretty much all leg. It's actually pretty impressive how tall Trailbreaker is compared to his work friends. I can't remember if the scale is accurate, but I'll presume that Takara did their homework.
Bot mode looks goofy, but in a good way. Lets be honest here - the 80s on screen models weren't exactly works of art, and I feel Takara did a great job at capturing that on this toy. The head is... something else. I know some people were complaining about the size of the chin and other things, but at the end of the day it's nowhere as bad as what we got for MP Ironhide and Ratchet. I'm pretty sure the on screen model didn't have the backpack, but that's basically life of transforming figures without parts forming.
Accessory wise it's decent, but not exactly blowing my mind. You get two additional faces, an additional chromed weapon swap out on the arm, and of course his other hand. There's also a blast effect which is an Acid Spray IIRC.
Articulation is actually pretty good, though the bulk of the torso does interfere with things. Lower body features great range of motion, and there's even an ab crunch type of deal. The shoulders and neck need some more love though. They're functional, yes, but not what I'd expect from a MP level transformer.
Overall, Trailbreaker offers a play experience towards the higher end of MP figures, which makes sense given the MSRP of almost 22,000 Yen, though you'd be insane to actually spend that amount on this figure. It's definitely a more impressive toy than the budget priced Skids, but I have to say that at this price point it's not as good as earlier releases like Sunstreaker and Inferno.
a level 5 alert fire is the highest level a fire can be gauged. a level 5 requires the assistance of all available firefighters to help control the situation. yesterday i came across this fire incident which was given this status as the conditions, high level winds, water shortage and very dry weather, induced the flames even further. this large fire razed through this community of urban informal settlers in metro manila scorching hundreds of houses that left hundreds of families homeless. firefighters were able to control the fire after 12 hours
On the Jinpeng section of the Jitong Railway the climb for westbound trains after passing Reshui comprised a series of big curves looping the line back and forward as it gained height. This train has already passed along the tracks in the background and will soon pass through a curving tunnel and reappear behind me going in the opposite direction on level 3. I have recently read that rail traffic is so great that there are plans to replace this entire section with a deviation incorporating much tunnelling.
In This Album: Here are the screenshots of the games released on the Nintendo eShop service in North America on January 28, 2016.
I’ve been wanting to take a city break in summer, rather than in the cold months for a while, so rather than heading for the Lake District for a week of toil on the fells when Jayne could get a week off, we took off from Liverpool for Paris. Flight times were nice and sociable but it meant we were on the M62 car park at a busy time in both directions – it’s a shambles! I’ve stopped over in Paris a dozen times – on my way to cycling in the Etape du Tour in the Alps or Pyrenees – and had a few nights out there. Come to think about it and we’ve spent the day on the Champs Elysees watching the final day of the Tour de France with Mark Cavendish winning. We hadn’t been for a holiday there though and it was a bit of a spur of the moment decision. Six nights gave us five and a half days to explore Paris on foot. I had a good selection of (heavy) kit with me, not wanting to make the usual mistake of leaving something behind and regretting it. In the end I carried the kit in my backpack – an ordinary rucksack – to keep the weight down, for 103 miles, all recorded on the cycling Garmin – and took 3500 photos. The little Garmin is light and will do about 15 hours, it expired towards the end of a couple of 16 hour days but I had the info I wanted by then. This also keeps the phone battery free for research and route finding – I managed to flatten that once though.
What can I say – Paris was fantastic! The weather varied from OK to fantastic, windy for a few days, the dreaded grey white dullness for a while but I couldn’t complain really. We were out around 8.30 in shorts and tee shirt, which I would swap for a vest when it warmed up, hitting 30 degrees at times, we stayed out until around midnight most nights. It was a pretty full on trip. The security at some destinations could have been a problem as there is a bag size limit to save room in the lifts etc. I found the French to be very pragmatic about it, a bag search was a cursory glance, accepting that I was lugging camera gear, not bombs around, and they weren’t going to stop a paying customer from passing because his bag was a bit over size.
We didn’t have a plan, as usual we made it up as we went along, a loose itinerary for the day would always end up changing owing to discoveries along the way. Many times we would visit something a few times, weighing the crowds and light etc. up and deciding to come back later. I waited patiently to go up the Eiffel Tower, we arrived on Tuesday and finally went up on Friday evening. It was a late decision but the weather was good, the light was good and importantly I reckoned that we would get a sunset. Previous evenings the sun had just slid behind distant westerly clouds without any golden glory. It was a good choice. We went up the steps at 7.30 pm, short queue and cheaper – and just to say that we had. The steps are at an easy angle and were nowhere near as bad as expected, even with the heavy pack. We stayed up there, on a mad and busy Friday night, until 11.30, the light changed a lot and once we had stayed a couple of hours we decided to wait for the lights to come on. This was a downside to travelling at this time of year, to do any night photography we had to stay out late as it was light until 10.30. The Eiffel Tower is incredible and very well run, they are quite efficient at moving people around it from level to level. It was still buzzing at midnight with thousands of people around. The sunset on Saturday was probably better but we spent the evening around the base of the Tower, watching the light change, people watching and soaking the party atmosphere up.
Some days our first destination was five miles away, this is a lot of road junctions in a city, the roads in Paris are wide so you generally have to wait for the green man to cross. This made progress steady but when you are on holiday it doesn’t matter too much. Needless to say we walked through some dodgy places, with graffiti on anything that stays still long enough. We were ultra-cautious with our belongings having heard the pickpocket horror stories. At every Café/bar stop the bags were clipped to the table leg out of sight and never left alone. I carried the camera in my hand all day and everywhere I went, I only popped it in my bag to eat. I would guess that there were easier people to rob than us, some people were openly careless with phones and wallets.
We didn’t enter the big attractions, it was too nice to be in a museum or church and quite a few have a photography ban. These bans make me laugh, they are totally ignored by many ( Japanese particularly) people. Having travelled around the world to see something, no one is going to stop them getting their selfies. Selfies? Everywhere people pointed their cameras at their own face, walking around videoing – their self! I do like to have a few photos of us for posterity but these people are self-obsessed.
Paris has obviously got a problem with homeless (mostly) migrants. Walk a distance along the River Seine and you will find tented villages, there is a powerful smell of urine in every corner, with the no alcohol restrictions ignored, empty cans and bottles stacked around the bins as evidence. There are families, woman living on mattresses with as many as four small children, on the main boulevards. They beg by day and at midnight they are all huddled asleep on the pavement. The men in the tents seem to be selling plastic Eiffel Tower models to the tourists or bottled water – even bottles of wine. Love locks and selfy sticks were also top sellers. There must be millions of locks fastened to railings around the city, mostly brass, so removing them will be self-funding as brass is £2.20 a kilo.
As for the sights we saw, well if it was on the map we tried to walk to it. We crossed the Periphique ring road to get to the outer reaches of Paris. La Defense – the financial area with dozens of modern office blocks – was impressive, and still expanding. The Bois de Boulogne park, with the horse racing track and the Louis Vuitton Centre was part of a 20 mile loop that day. Another day saw us in the north east. We had the dome of the Sacre Couer to ourselves, with thousands of tourists wandering below us oblivious of the entrance and ticket office under the church. Again the light was fantastic for us. We read that Pere Lachaise Cemetery or Cimitiere du Pere Lachaise was one of the most visited destinations, a five mile walk but we went. It is massive, you need a map, but for me one massive tomb is much the same as another, it does have highlights but we didn’t stay long. Fortunately we were now closer to the Canal St Martin which would lead us to Parc de la Villette. This was a Sunday and everywhere was both buzzing and chilled at the same time. Where ever we went people were sat watching the world go by, socializing and picnicking, soaking the sun up. As ever I wanted to go up on the roof of anything I could as I love taking cityscapes. Most of these were expensive compared with many places we’ve been to before but up we went. The Tour Montparnasse, a single tower block with 59 floors, 690 foot high and extremely fast lifts has incredible views although it was a touch hazy on our ascent. The Arc de Triomphe was just up the road from our hotel, we went up it within hours of arriving, well worth the visit.
At the time of writing I have no idea how many images will make the cut but it will be a lot. If I have ten subtly different shots of something, I find it hard to consign nine to the dark depths of my hard drive never to be seen again – and I’m not very good at ruthless selection – so if the photo is OK it will get uploaded. My view is that it’s my photostream, I like to be able to browse my own work at my leisure at a later date, it’s more or less free and stats tell me these images will get looked at. I’m not aiming for single stunning shots, more of a comprehensive overview of an interesting place, presented to the best of my current capabilities. I am my own biggest critic, another reason for looking at my older stuff is to critique it and look to improve on previous mistakes. I do get regular requests from both individuals and organisations to use images and I’m obliging unless someone is taking the piss. I’m not bothered about work being published (with my permission) but it is reassuringly nice to be asked. The manipulation of Flickr favourites and views through adding thousands of contacts doesn’t interest me and I do sometimes question the whole point of the Flickr exercise. I do like having access to my own back catalogue though and it gives family and friends the chance to read about the trip and view the photos at their leisure so for the time being I’m sticking with it. I do have over 15 million views at the moment which is a far cry from showing a few people an album, let’s face it, there’s an oversupply of images, many of them superb but all being devalued by the sheer quantity available.
Don’t think that it was all walking and photography, we had a great break and spent plenty of time in pavement bistros having a glass of wine and people watching. I can certainly understand why Paris is top of the travellers list of destinations
Ground level car parking and right turn flyover ramp to roof car parking area at Westfield Carousel in Cannington prior to the start of major works to expand the centre.This section opened in 1999 and included Kmart, Coles supermarket, new Hoyts cinemas and an expansion of the Myer department store which allowed it to consolidate to the former Aherns site from the Boans location. Woolworths was relocated at the opposite end of the centre and the interior underwent a full refurbishment.
In 2017 the Albany Highway car parking area made way for a new David Jones department store and mall with 60 shops with a 3 level car parking structure included at the corner of Liege Street on a site formerly occupied by a standalone KFC and Hungry Jacks. The flyover ramp was partially demolished to make way for the mall; the remainder will connect to the new structure much closer to Albany Highway.
In This Album: Here are the screenshots of the games released on the Nintendo eShop service in North America on January 28, 2016.
London Midland Turbostar no. 172331 runs empty through Tamworth en route from Derby back to Tyseley after having its interior fitted out.
2nd December 2011
Wilton Road, south of Odessa, Ontario, Canada. A snowplow negotiates the railway tracks that lead to Toronto.
ND1000 making the still, even more serene.
Better bigger and blacker. Comments, love it; graphics, stop it.
Soldiers in the Armed Forces of the Republic of Uzbekistan, file into a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter during Embassy Training exercise during Southern Strike 2023, at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Mississippi, April 24, 2023. Southern Strike 2023 is a large-scale, joint multinational combat exercise hosted by the Mississippi National Guard that provides tactical level training for the full spectrum of conflict. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. Jonathan Eaves)
Dublin to Galway (MGWR) Railway Line - MP Broadstone 56 3/4.
Kiernan's Level Crossing (XG064) in Ballyhandy, Westmeath 25th May 2013.
Freightliner Class 86 Bo-Bos 86609 and 86638 head through Tamworth with 4L92 14.03 Ditton - Felixstowe.
2nd July 2010
Tuakiri | Identity, Level 2, TÅ«ranga. Friday 26 August 2022.
File reference: NGAIO-MARSH-9
Photo by Kirk Hargreaves, CCC.
From the collection of Christchurch City Libraries