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Once the unit is separated from the body you now have access to the headlight, parking light and running light. Just twist and pull out the lights.
When replacing the unit I snapped the lower left clip into place, I put a little WD40 on the lower right side plastic clip and snapped it back into place. I had a little trouble positioning the unit but eventually got everything lined up at the right angles and slid it into place.
The Ferrari 308 series of three models replaced the Dino as the lowest rung of Ferrari ownership.
The first model, the Dino 308 GT4 as it was known, was a 4-seat model, styled by Bertone. The car was powered by a new 2.9 L V8 engine.
The second and third cars were styled by long-term partner Pininfarina, and resembled a somewhat smaller 365 GT4 BB. The two versions reflected the layouts seen in the Dino model - a Berlinetta known as the 308 GTB, and a targa-top model known as the 308 GTS.
The first couple of years of the Berlinetta saw the body produced in fibreglass, replaced by steel once the targa model began production. The early glass cars, due to their light weight and powerful engines are more collectible than later cars.
The 308 GTB & GTS underwent a number of modest cosmetic changes during their lifetime, along with changes in engine fuelling and valvegear. This resulted in various power outputs as the engine were influenced by emissions technology and countermeasures.
The Ferrari 308 GTS Targa model shown here featured in the TV series Magnum PI, set on Hawaii during the 1980s. The car was regularly updated to the newest model, so different seasons see slightly different cars.
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better version 28-Jun-23.
Unusual... An Air Atlanta Boeing 747 actually painted in their full livery... Although it had just started a wet-lease to Cathay Pacific.
Built as a 'Combi' with a side cargo door, this aircraft could be used in full passenger configuration or as a Combi with a main deck cargo area on the left side of the rear fuselage.
The aircraft was delivered to Lufthansa as D-ABYY in Dec-82. It was returned to Lufthansa Leasing GmbH in Aug-91 and was converted into a full freighter, but without the window blanks.
It was leased to German Cargo Air (a Lufthansa Group company) in Nov-91. German Cargo was renamed Lufthansa Cargo in May-93. The aircraft was 'sold' to Lufthansa Cargo in Dec-95.
In Jul-00 the aircraft was sold to a lessor and leased to Southern Air (USA) as N743SA. It was returned to the lessor in Mar-03 and leased to Air Atlanta Icelandic as TF-ARL in May-03. In Jan-04 it was wet-leased to MASkargo (Malaysia Airlines cargo division).
The wet-lease to MASkargo became a dry-lease when the aircraft was re-registered 9M-MHZ in Oct-05. It returned to Air Atlanta Icelandic as TF-ARL in May-06. It was wet-leased to Cathay Pacific Airways Cargo in Jun-06 and returned to Air Atlanta Icelandic around May-07.
The aircraft was leased to Tesis Air Cargo as VP-BXE in Nov-07. It was returned to Air Atlanta Icelandic as TF-ARL in Sep-08 and was stored at Luxembourg. After 27 years in service it was ferried to Kuala Lumpur in Jun-09 and was permanently retired. It was broken up at Kuala Lumpur in 2011.
The Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation received a Save America's Treasures grant, a Georgia Heritage Grant, and numerous donations from Friends of Andalusia to restore the Hill house at Andalusia. andalusiafarm.org/andalusia/restoration.htm
Fossil of the day 12 December COP25
1st 🇺🇸 US (again!) for blocking money for victims of severe climate impacts for 6 years now!
2nd - Developed Countries especially 🇪🇺🇨🇦🇦🇺 for lack of ambition in #lossanddamage for vulnerable countries
🇦🇺 Australia for using carbon market loopholes
#RayoftheDay 🌅
For the people rolling up their sleeves to take on the fossil fuel industry
🇵🇭 Philippines - climate activists petitioning #CarbonMajors for human rights
🇳🇴Norway-fighting extraction in the Arctic
Indigenous heroes from the 🇧🇷Amazon to 🇦🇺Australia
Today we have in first place for the fossil of the day award the United States of America (USA) (again and again)!
The main reason is for generally really standing in the way of any money going to the people suffering from climate change. This has been going on for at least six years. This should really raise eyebrows about the country´s lack of empathy. Are there real people in office in the US People with actual hearts? Or have they replaced their humanity with a lump of coal?
First inhumanity, and now they put on full display their paranoia! They are afraid of being held accountable for causing droughts in Africa. They are afraid of being held accountable for the drowning of the Pacific; the destruction of entire civilisations. Actually, they should be held accountable but this is not what the Paris Agreement is about. It is about international cooperation, no developing country talked about liability. Yet the US insists on language on liability and compensation in the draft COP Decision text on the Review of the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss & Damage (WIM).
Hey US you are on your way out, you are not giving a single dollar to the Green Climate Fund and now you don’t want any help to get to the people bearing the brunt of the mess you created! And still, you want to be part of the WIM’s Executive Committee! Pay up or step out, let others move forward already.
The Second Fossil of the Day award goes to developed countries with special mention to the European Union, Canada and Australia for showing lack of ambition in responding to vulnerable peoples’needs on loss and damage.
The WIM Review unofficially began on December 1st, and the overwhelming message was that finance to address loss and damage must be an outcome of COP25.
Two weeks later, poor and vulnerable countries and civil society are wondering if developed countries attended a different meeting on December 1st.
While we acknowledge they have been less problematic than the US, developed countries, including Australia, Canada and the European Union have done very little very late to advance discussions on loss and damage finance age. It’s especially confusing when all three have agreed that existing climate finance is insufficient. Anyhow, aren’t they the rich people in the room? And part of the club that caused the problem in the first place? Why is it so difficult for them to pay for the damages they are still causing. Also…hey Canada… isn’t high time you differentiate yourself from cronies like Australia and the US?
It is beyond us to understand how developed countries can sit by and continue to twiddle their thumbs whilst vulnerable communities in developing countries experience severe losses and damages. You have one day left to show you want to be on the right side of history!
The third fossil award goes to Australia - for using carbon market loopholes to meet its climate targets
We award this fossil to Australia for planning to cheat the atmosphere by carrying over its credits from the Kyoto protocol. Instead of cutting greenhouse gas pollution, Australia is using creative accounting. Please bear with us now: Australia plans to count surplus carbon credits from exceeding previous targets against future targets. Regrettably, this was allowed under the old Kyoto protocol, but it is not even mentioned in the Paris agreement. No country in though about such trickery.
To make things worse, since the Paris Agreement is a new and separate treaty, this is not even legal stuff!
Hey Australia: Article 6 deserves some more love here instead of your distractions. When you rig your climate target you shouldn't showcase this as "overachievement". You must do more in the future, not less. Please stop cooking up the books, stop shifting carbon pollution around. Grow up, be a responsible adult and get over Kyoto, it´s long gone now!
The Ray of the Day goes to the people rolling up their sleeves to take on the fossil fuel industry
We would like to especially mention:
The activists from the Philippines who petitioned the Philippines Commission for Human Rights to denounce the responsibility of the Carbon Majors for climate-induced human rights violations
The amazing Norwegians campaigning to denounce fossil fuel extraction in the Arctic and who will be facing the government in court tomorrow - hoping that the judge will realize how incompatible large scale fossil fuel extraction is with the right to a healthy environment for present and future generations
The indigenous heroes, from the Amazon to Australia risking their already vulnerable lives to fight fossil fuel development on traditional land and to preserve cultural and environmental integrity
These heroes are leading the charge in bringing down the real elephant occupying the UNFCCC hallways and backing the deniers and the blockers. Hur-Ray to the people! They are the hope and they will prevail!
About the fossils:
Every day at 18:00 local time you can watch the Fossil ceremony in Hall 4 during COP25.
The Fossil of the Day awards were first presented at the climate talks in 1999, in Bonn, initiated by the German NGO Forum. During United Nations climate change negotiations (www.unfccc.int), members of the Climate Action Network (CAN), vote for countries judged to have done their 'best' to block progress in the negotiations in the last days of talks.
About CAN: The Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 1,300 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in more than 120 countries working to promote government and individual action to limit human induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels.
Watch the Facebook livestream video
Attribution: John Englart/Climate Action Network
The Royal Hotel was opened in March 1917. Construction of the new hotel commenced in November 1916 after the original hotel on the site was destroyed by fire in August 1916, which resulted in the loss of one life. The earlier hotel was a two storey wooden building built in 1888. It in turn replaced a coffee palace erected soon after the site was purchased by the first proprietor of these establishments, Mr. Davidson Wadeson, during the first Loch township land sales on 22 November, 1887.
The Royal Hotel at 2 Smith Street, Loch, is a two storey red brick hotel with a simple horizontal rendered parapet concealing hipped roofs and a recessed two storey verandah supported on brick piers and contained between symmetrical outer bays, each with two single double hung windows on each level. The verandah balustrade is of simple timber balusters and there is limited render banding at the first floor and ceiling level. Cornices project over the verandah bays and at parapet level between the raised side piers of the side bays. The Royal Hotel features some beautiful Art Nouveau stained glass panels along the ground floor public bar and entrance to the hotel quarters. Some of these panes feature Fresian cows as a tribute to the local dairy industry which made Loch a commercial centre in the Federation and interwar period.
Aesthetically, it is a fine example in restricted Federation elements departing very little from Victorian precedents, which by its scale make a notable contribution to the historic character of Loch. Its setting is enhanced by the pair of Cotton Palms (Washingtonia filifera) in the rear yard, which is typical of Edwardian era landscaping. Scientifically, the Cotton Palms are rare mature examples of this species within the Shire of Worrayl.
Loch is a town in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia which was established in 1876. The town was named in honour of the Governor of Victoria, Henry Loch. Loch was established with the coming of the steam railway that connected it with Melbourne. Early in Loch's development, the townspeople recognised the need for a local and accessible school to provide the fluctuating numbers of children with an elementary and socialising education. Petitions were sent to the Victorian Department of Education for this purpose and by 1889 the school had been constructed and a Head Teacher, Francis William Clarke, appointed. In many ways the history of this school and its teacher provide valuable information about living in what was then an isolated town, and the efforts of its residents to establish a sense of place and community. Today Loch has had a major makeover and is no longer the dairy and market hamlet as it used to be. Loch Village, as it is now known as, is the garden village of South Gippsland and is well known for its picturesque beauty and small village bucolic charm. It has a thriving craft community with cosy cafes, charming curio stores, antique shops and galleries. The township is set back from the highway amongst colourful cottage gardens that spill out cheekily onto the street.
Volkonskoite-replaced fossil wood from the Permian of Russia. (4.3 cm across at its widest)
This is a very rare specimen of fossil wood from Permian rocks in western Russia. Most fossil wood is preserved by quartz-permineralization or carbonization. This fossil wood has been replaced by a rare chromian smectite clay mineral called volkonskoite (Ca0.3(Cr,Mg,Fe)2(Si,Al)4O10 (OH)2⋅4H2O - hydrous calcium chromium magnesium iron hydroxy-aluminosilicate). The chromium (Cr) content gives the fossil its green coloration. The striations appear to be remnants of the original wood structure. The broken sides show that the massive, fine-grained volkonskoite breaks with a conchoidal fracture.
Host rocks & age: soft fluvial sandstones, Kazanian to Tatarian Stages, upper Upper Permian
Locality: Mt. Efimiatsk (Mt. Efimyatskaya), near the town of Efimyata, ~10 miles west of Votinsk Reservoir & ~30 miles southwest of Okhansk, Chastinsky District, southwestern Perm Region, western foothills of the southwestern Ural Mountains, western Russia
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 03-Mar-19.
Qantas Airlink operated by National Jet Systems
First flown in Feb-91 with the British Aerospace test registration G-6-184, it was re-registered G-BTKC in Apr-91. It was leased to Alisarda (Italy) in May-19. Alisarda was renamed Meridiana SpA in Sep-91 and the aircraft was re-registered I-FLRV in Oct-91. It was returned to Trident Aviation Leasing Services (Jersey) Ltd as G-BTKC in Jul-94. It was leased to National Jet Systems (Australia) as VH-NJJ and sub-leased to Qantas Airlink in Aug-94. Airlink later became QantasLink. The aircraft was returned to National Jet Systems in Nov-05 and was due to be leased to Asian Spirit Airlines in early 2006 but the lease wasn't taken up and it was stored at Adelaide, Australia. It was ferried to Exeter, UK, in Nov-06 and returned to Trident Aviation Leasing Services (Jersey) Ltd as G-BTKC. The aircraft was leased to Eurowings as D-AEWF in Apr-07 and operated on behalf of Lufthansa Regional. It was returned to Trident Aviation as G-BTKC in May-10. It was stored until it was leased to Star Peru as OB-1964-T in Feb-11. The aircraft was eventually permanently retired and broken up (no dates available). Updated (Mar-19).
We had a weekend in Borrowdale recently, a Christmas present that we tagged a day on to. After calling at work on Saturday morning to open for business we headed up the motorway to Penrith. The road through the central lakes was washed away in the recent floods and it is going to be a long job replacing it. This made the diverted journey around 145 miles but we had a good run up there. We wanted to get walking ASAP so we pulled in at Threlkeld with a view to heading up Clough Head, and subject to conditions, head over the Dodds and back by the Old Coach Road. We had left appalling weather at home, wind, rain, fog and sleet on the tops. Thankfully it was better further north. There was laying snow on the summits, it was fairly calm low down and some summits were cloud free.
We left the car at 11.10 in our winter gear, straight up through the quarries and the steep scree slope (another Red Screes), by now we were into the snow line. The cloud was down, the wind gale force and the summit frozen hard – a different world up here. South next to Calfhow Pike, the wind made it difficult to talk and it was around -4 so the there was a fair wind-chill factor. It was tough going to our next top – Great Dodd, part of the Helvellyn massif – It was to icy to walk in places which meant deviating from the path, and losing our bearings, visibility was around ten yards with spindrift creating a whiteout at times. We battled on to the top and found the summit cairn. Great Dodd isn’t the easiest top to find your way off in low visibility, we would have gone further but in these conditions it was pointless so we retraced our steps to Calfhow and clear conditions. From here we followed Mosedale beck to Mariel Bridge, which is on the Old Coach Road, this gave us a circular route back to our start. The Old Coach Road has been wrecked by the floods and the 4x4 off roaders are making it a lot worse. 9.25 miles in 3 ¼ hours and we were in Brysons Tearooms in Keswick for Coffee and cake by 3.45pm. We carried on to Borrowdale and checked in at our hotel, not a bad day really.
After a poor night in a poor bed we were breakfasted and out for 8.30. We drove the few miles up to Seatoller and we were kitted up and away at 9.10. A bitterly cold and icy morning, there was some sun but not as much as promised. We could see the summit of Great End covered in cloud, we were heading up there on to the Sca Fell massif. We followed the valley to the east of Seathwaite Fell, a new path for us. Once in the snow the going was very icy with the path ice covered in places. The snow was dry and powdery and in places it had blown over the underlying ice. At this point I might add, we do own crampons. After a winter of splashing around soaked we didn’t expect to need them and they were at home – very clever! This was our first real winters day this winter, other than an hour on Sca Fell Pike on Christmas Day, we haven’t seen winter conditions this winter. By the time we got to Esk Hause it was difficult to stay upright and on our way to Great End we had to pick our way very carefully around the worst of the ice. The spindrift made it difficult to see the ground at times, spinning around our feet in a mist. Once on the summit the cloud was thick and the wind speed high. We had been here fairly recently so I knew the layout of the summit and we had little difficulty finding the summit cairn. We were cursing our lack of crampons and the cloud. Instead of heading into the cloud along the Sca Fell Pike path we decided to get under the cloud, back to Esk Hause and head over Allen Crags and Glaramara. At this point we both took some heavy falls, as did others up there, a lot turned around and headed back down, it was deadly. The cloud had thickened, there wasn’t a ray of sun to soften things. Our chosen route was one of the hardest afternoons we had ever had. Everywhere was frozen solid, we had to kick toe or heel holes to move on slopes that we wouldn’t have broken stride on normally. Minor rock scrambles down steep crags had become life threatening in places and we proceeded with extreme care. The knees were creaking on the long descent to Seathwaite. 10.3 miles in six hours, almost half the speed of yesterday. We made it Keswick for afternoon tea – and bought some Micro Spikes for unfinished business to deal with tomorrow. A beautiful day was forecast so fingers crossed we headed back for a soak in the tub.
Day three, a gorgeous icy, sunny winters day. Things looked promising. We left along yesterday’s route at the same start time – with walking poles and Micro Spikes! At the top of the valley we met a guy who had set off before us, two guys known to him were picking their way through the crags, tiny specks on the 800 foot rocky crag. Some appeared to have tried to climb the snow filled chimney that runs to the summit but we heard later that conditions weren’t suitable. Even though it was minus four the sun had softened the snow just enough to get a grip and it was easier to avoid the worst of the ice, unlike yesterday. The summit of Great End was incredible with never ending vistas. We could see a steady stream of walkers on every path by now. Word had got out that we were in for a rare treat today, plus it was school half term so a lot of people were off work. I visited every possible viewpoint as we went to the summit of Ill Crag , Broad Crag and finally Sca Fell Pike. It was 1.00 PM by now and a steady stream of elated walkers were arriving on England’s highest point. It was bitter but beautiful. We had around five miles back to the car along the Corridor Route to Styhead, Stockley Bridge and Seathwaite. Part of this route we had covered recently on Christmas Day and despite the snow and ice we powered along. We would have been back in two hours but! A mile from the car, following the manmade path down Taylorgill Force to Stockley Bridge Jayne Stumbled. It’s not often she walks in front. I normally lead and relay instructions and warnings back to her. She hit the rock path with her head and face really hard, stunned, she rolled off the path over a drop. She was vertical, resting on a rock on her knees and clinging on to the edge of the path with her fingertips. I grabbed her rucksack and held her whilst I checked her injuries. She had a bad bump on her temple, another on her forehead, split the bridge or her nose, her glasses had gone flying but would straighten. Being left handed she had stuck her left hand out and it had been bent back, it was swelling and discolouring pretty fast. When I had established that nothing was serious enough to stop her moving I got her back on to the path to see to her injuries. The pain initially made her think that she was in a worse state than ( I thought) she really was. She could move her fingers and wrist, albeit with some pain but not enough for it to be broken. The wound to the bridge of her nose although very painful wasn’t going to be a problem. The bumps on her head were turning into eggs by now. I gave her Ibuprofen and Paracetemol and she sat and composed herself for the final mile. We made it to the café in Keswick and got a slightly later afternoon break, our first of the day again. 11.3 miles today in 6 ¼ hours and fairly tough going. It was nothing more than a careless, tired perhaps, stumble on one of the horrible ( our own opinion, I might add) manmade paths made out of irregular stones which are laid at odd angles and are a nightmare to descend when wet on tired legs. A few days later and Jayne is sat on reception at the doctors looking like she’s been boxing, with a purple eye and nose, her left hand swollen and purple – otherwise she’s OK. I came down with mild food poisoning during the night and had to drive 145 miles home at 8.00 the morning after feeling extremely ill. I was due to start fasting for a Colonoscopy in three days. I ended up eating six slices of toast over a four day period – Monday evening to Thursday evening- Having had over 40 stomach endoscopies in twenty years the colonoscopy was nothing more than uncomfortable and , subject to biopsy results, everything looked OK. The trapped wind was another matter – for two days! All in all a very traumatic week. Needless to say we didn’t use the Micro Spikes.
25 Oct 1988
This station has been replaced by one further along the line.
The trains went to Essen to be trams!
We had a weekend in Borrowdale recently, a Christmas present that we tagged a day on to. After calling at work on Saturday morning to open for business we headed up the motorway to Penrith. The road through the central lakes was washed away in the recent floods and it is going to be a long job replacing it. This made the diverted journey around 145 miles but we had a good run up there. We wanted to get walking ASAP so we pulled in at Threlkeld with a view to heading up Clough Head, and subject to conditions, head over the Dodds and back by the Old Coach Road. We had left appalling weather at home, wind, rain, fog and sleet on the tops. Thankfully it was better further north. There was laying snow on the summits, it was fairly calm low down and some summits were cloud free.
We left the car at 11.10 in our winter gear, straight up through the quarries and the steep scree slope (another Red Screes), by now we were into the snow line. The cloud was down, the wind gale force and the summit frozen hard – a different world up here. South next to Calfhow Pike, the wind made it difficult to talk and it was around -4 so the there was a fair wind-chill factor. It was tough going to our next top – Great Dodd, part of the Helvellyn massif – It was to icy to walk in places which meant deviating from the path, and losing our bearings, visibility was around ten yards with spindrift creating a whiteout at times. We battled on to the top and found the summit cairn. Great Dodd isn’t the easiest top to find your way off in low visibility, we would have gone further but in these conditions it was pointless so we retraced our steps to Calfhow and clear conditions. From here we followed Mosedale beck to Mariel Bridge, which is on the Old Coach Road, this gave us a circular route back to our start. The Old Coach Road has been wrecked by the floods and the 4x4 off roaders are making it a lot worse. 9.25 miles in 3 ¼ hours and we were in Brysons Tearooms in Keswick for Coffee and cake by 3.45pm. We carried on to Borrowdale and checked in at our hotel, not a bad day really.
After a poor night in a poor bed we were breakfasted and out for 8.30. We drove the few miles up to Seatoller and we were kitted up and away at 9.10. A bitterly cold and icy morning, there was some sun but not as much as promised. We could see the summit of Great End covered in cloud, we were heading up there on to the Sca Fell massif. We followed the valley to the east of Seathwaite Fell, a new path for us. Once in the snow the going was very icy with the path ice covered in places. The snow was dry and powdery and in places it had blown over the underlying ice. At this point I might add, we do own crampons. After a winter of splashing around soaked we didn’t expect to need them and they were at home – very clever! This was our first real winters day this winter, other than an hour on Sca Fell Pike on Christmas Day, we haven’t seen winter conditions this winter. By the time we got to Esk Hause it was difficult to stay upright and on our way to Great End we had to pick our way very carefully around the worst of the ice. The spindrift made it difficult to see the ground at times, spinning around our feet in a mist. Once on the summit the cloud was thick and the wind speed high. We had been here fairly recently so I knew the layout of the summit and we had little difficulty finding the summit cairn. We were cursing our lack of crampons and the cloud. Instead of heading into the cloud along the Sca Fell Pike path we decided to get under the cloud, back to Esk Hause and head over Allen Crags and Glaramara. At this point we both took some heavy falls, as did others up there, a lot turned around and headed back down, it was deadly. The cloud had thickened, there wasn’t a ray of sun to soften things. Our chosen route was one of the hardest afternoons we had ever had. Everywhere was frozen solid, we had to kick toe or heel holes to move on slopes that we wouldn’t have broken stride on normally. Minor rock scrambles down steep crags had become life threatening in places and we proceeded with extreme care. The knees were creaking on the long descent to Seathwaite. 10.3 miles in six hours, almost half the speed of yesterday. We made it Keswick for afternoon tea – and bought some Micro Spikes for unfinished business to deal with tomorrow. A beautiful day was forecast so fingers crossed we headed back for a soak in the tub.
Day three, a gorgeous icy, sunny winters day. Things looked promising. We left along yesterday’s route at the same start time – with walking poles and Micro Spikes! At the top of the valley we met a guy who had set off before us, two guys known to him were picking their way through the crags, tiny specks on the 800 foot rocky crag. Some appeared to have tried to climb the snow filled chimney that runs to the summit but we heard later that conditions weren’t suitable. Even though it was minus four the sun had softened the snow just enough to get a grip and it was easier to avoid the worst of the ice, unlike yesterday. The summit of Great End was incredible with never ending vistas. We could see a steady stream of walkers on every path by now. Word had got out that we were in for a rare treat today, plus it was school half term so a lot of people were off work. I visited every possible viewpoint as we went to the summit of Ill Crag , Broad Crag and finally Sca Fell Pike. It was 1.00 PM by now and a steady stream of elated walkers were arriving on England’s highest point. It was bitter but beautiful. We had around five miles back to the car along the Corridor Route to Styhead, Stockley Bridge and Seathwaite. Part of this route we had covered recently on Christmas Day and despite the snow and ice we powered along. We would have been back in two hours but! A mile from the car, following the manmade path down Taylorgill Force to Stockley Bridge Jayne Stumbled. It’s not often she walks in front. I normally lead and relay instructions and warnings back to her. She hit the rock path with her head and face really hard, stunned, she rolled off the path over a drop. She was vertical, resting on a rock on her knees and clinging on to the edge of the path with her fingertips. I grabbed her rucksack and held her whilst I checked her injuries. She had a bad bump on her temple, another on her forehead, split the bridge or her nose, her glasses had gone flying but would straighten. Being left handed she had stuck her left hand out and it had been bent back, it was swelling and discolouring pretty fast. When I had established that nothing was serious enough to stop her moving I got her back on to the path to see to her injuries. The pain initially made her think that she was in a worse state than ( I thought) she really was. She could move her fingers and wrist, albeit with some pain but not enough for it to be broken. The wound to the bridge of her nose although very painful wasn’t going to be a problem. The bumps on her head were turning into eggs by now. I gave her Ibuprofen and Paracetemol and she sat and composed herself for the final mile. We made it to the café in Keswick and got a slightly later afternoon break, our first of the day again. 11.3 miles today in 6 ¼ hours and fairly tough going. It was nothing more than a careless, tired perhaps, stumble on one of the horrible ( our own opinion, I might add) manmade paths made out of irregular stones which are laid at odd angles and are a nightmare to descend when wet on tired legs. A few days later and Jayne is sat on reception at the doctors looking like she’s been boxing, with a purple eye and nose, her left hand swollen and purple – otherwise she’s OK. I came down with mild food poisoning during the night and had to drive 145 miles home at 8.00 the morning after feeling extremely ill. I was due to start fasting for a Colonoscopy in three days. I ended up eating six slices of toast over a four day period – Monday evening to Thursday evening- Having had over 40 stomach endoscopies in twenty years the colonoscopy was nothing more than uncomfortable and , subject to biopsy results, everything looked OK. The trapped wind was another matter – for two days! All in all a very traumatic week. Needless to say we didn’t use the Micro Spikes.
To replace anchor cables on the I-90 Lake Washington floating bridges, the divers must work in a fairly hostile environment. It's dark and murky at the bottom of the lake.
A camera is mounted on the diver's helmet. It provides a live video feed which shows the crew back on the barge what the diver is seeing and doing.
This is photo of the monitor on the work barge showing the diver's hands.
The divers are replacing 21 of the 108 anchor cables that help stabilize the I-90 floating bridges against wind and waves.
Learn more at: www.wsdot.wa.gov/projects/i90/floatingbridgesanchorcables/
Replacing an earlier scanned 6"x4" print with a better version 10-Apr-22 (DeNoise AI).
'Lufthansa Express' titles
Named: "Emden".
First flown with the Airbus test registration F-WWCE, this aircraft was delivered to Lufthansa as D-AIDD in Mar-89. It was leased to Hapag-Lloyd in May-04. Hapag-Lloyd was renamed Hapagfly in Apr-05.
It was returned to Lufthansa in Nov-05 and stored at Bournemouth, UK. The aircraft was sold to a lessor in Feb-06 and was due to be leased to Eagle Aviation (France) as F-GTIA. However the lease fell through and it was sold to Blue Airways (Kyrgyzstan - surprise!) as EX-31088 in Mar-06.
It was officially wet-leased to Mahan Air (Iran) in Jan-07. The aircraft was sold to Mahan Air as EP-MHO in Apr-08. It was permanently retired at Kerman, Iran in Jul-20 after 31 years in service. It's due to be preserved at Kerman. Updated 10-Apr-22.
Gloucester Rd, Wanchai.
Built to replace an earlier police station in Wanchai, this building (also known as 'No.2 Police Station') had previously faced the harbour. The waterfront is now many metres away after successive reclamation projects in land-hungry Honkers.
Reflecting the emerging Modernism in the 1930s, the rather austere style of architecture is known as "Stripped Classicism" where Classical or Neo-Classical architectural designs were reduced to their structural elements. In this building, for example, whilst its symmetry is impeccable, the central pediment bears only sparse ornamentation; the columns are neither Corinthian nor Ionic, moreover they are neither rounded nor fluted; the arcade is rectangular and functional with no detailing save the occassional rusticated column. Popular in the 1930s, this style of architecture was especially popular in public and institutional buildings in Britain and the US. The style, however, was to attain notoriety as the preferred architecture of the vainglorious and troublesome Messrs Hitler and Mussolini.
The building's use as a police station came to an end in late 2010. It will be put up for open tender at some point in the future. Although demolition is unlikely, given the Hong Kong's Government's pathetic record on "historic preservation", I shudder to think that it ends up to be a mish-mash of foreign luxury shopping and brand goods outlets (like we need more!), expensive restaurants and de-luxe hotel-style interiors (marble, mirrors etc). Yawn.
For the next trip to Limanowa, Ty2-1348 was replaced by a different Ty2 whose number I can't quite make out. A good shot of the departure was difficult in view of the direction of the light.
Ideally I would have stayed here overnight and spent the following day photographing steam amid glorious scenery of the Limanowa line; however my Polish visa was about to expire and I had no choice but to continue to the Czech border.
Ferrari again, this time 1982. Originally designed to replace the 365 GTB/4 Daytona as the Ferrari 'supercar'. The original Berlinetta Boxer, the 365 GT4 BB, was launched in 1973. Ferrari had been beaten to launching the mid-engined supercar by Lamborghini by the sublime Miura, regardless of the fact that Ferrari had road registered 250 LMs earlier in the 1960's.
The Boxer was so named due to the orientation of the 12 cylinders. Arranged at 180 degrees, the layout is popularly named 'boxer', and is also used by Porsche (911, Boxster), VW (Original Beetle and Microbus) and Subaru. Both Ferrari and Porsche popularised the layout in racing in he 1960's and 70's and sought to capitilise on their success with the layout in their road cars.
By 1982 the car was nearly a decade old, having had the engine enlarged from 4.4 litres to 5.0 litres in 1976 after 387 had been produced. In 1982, near at the end of its career, the 512 gained Bosch K-jetronic fuel injection to try and contain the power loss from ongoing emissions legislation. This, however was not enough to prevent a drop off in performance.
The style is classic 1970's Maranello - curvy and wedgy a the same time. Waspishness around the wheelarches and a low, pointy nose.
13 years is a long career as a Ferrari though. The 512 BBi was replaced in 1984 by the new Testarossa after 1007 had been produced. The Testarossa retained the 5.0 litre capacity and 180 degree, 12-cylinder layout. The style was all new. Very wide, with horizontal strakes that would become the signature Ferrari look during the 1980's.
This miniland scale model has been created in Lego Digital Designer for Flickr LUGNuts 43rd build challenge - 'Plus or Minus Ten' - celebrating vehicles built ten years before or after the birth year of the modeller.
Royal town Beroun, the gate to Český kras and Křivoklát region, lies near Prague at the crossroad of our capital, west part of the republic and Germany. The old mercantile road is replaced by D5 highway and railway tracks connecting Beroun with Prague, Plzeň and Rakovník. Present Beroun town with nearly 18 thousand inhabitants, is a cultural, administrative and industrial centre of the region. Town Information Centre in Husovo square can give you information about sights, cultural and sport events, train and bus time tables, tickets and so on.
Royal town Beroun lies on the confluence of Berounka and Litavka rivers and it is attractive for its historical sights and rich cultural and sport events and splendid surrounding. It is the gate to two protected landscape areas-Český kras and Křivoklát region. The settlement was found at the ford over Mže river in prehistory in the 13th century. Important mercantile path from Prague to Plzeň and Bavory in Germany went through it. The first written report about the town is in the document of Přemysl Otakar the IInd from 1265. Latin name Verona was translated as Bern into German language and as Berona, Berún, Beroun into Czech language. But the town run wild soon and had to be built again during the reign of Václav the IInd. New rampart and galleries and a new cloister of Dominicans were built. The ruler awarded a majesty to Beroun in 1303, which allowed to use the administrative rules of the Old Prague Town.
The period of the reign of Charles the IVth braught prosperity of the town and crafts. Our ancestors were famous potters, clothmakers, malt makers, vintners and brewery workers. Also german people lived here. They were concentrated around Dominikans cloister and support Zikmund, an emperor during the Hussite wars. But Žižka conquered the town in 1421, pulled down the Dominicans cloister and enemies of chalice let burn. After the town came down on Hussite brotherhood. Beroun citizens support a new king, Jiří from Poděbrady and they helped him as soldiers. During the reign of Vladislav Jagellonský, the town reached the biggest prosperity. Conflagrations disrupted the development of the town, especially houses. Also floods, epidemies and war plunders hit Beroun. But people thanks to their toughness revived and renewed the town again and again.
Only from the half of the 18th century the town is revitalizing and developing to present face. Beroun is becoming the centre of the region, a school and new associations are found, important personalities go through the town, railway track from Prague to Plzeň is open in 1862. Also industry typical for Beroun is developing-iron works, cementworks, limekilns.
Present Beroun has 17 476 inhabitants. Town hall in Husovo square is the dominant feature. Its pseudo-rennaissance style comes from 1903. Prague and Pilsner gate are very popular among tourists, as well as rests of rampart, moat and bulwarks from the 14th century. The town is famous for its ceramics fair, which has been inviting potters and ceramic masters from the whole country for 7 years. Just potters belonged to the most appreciated and respected craftsmen in the Medieval Age. Also Town Hill with a lookout and a bear-home is a big attraction. There have been living 3 little bears, heroes of the evening fairy tale Matěj, Vojta and Kuba since 2000 (see picture on the left above). Beroun town has a bear in his emblem and in his flag and now it is proud of live bears.
Beroun is an important centre of light and middle-heavy industry. Some companies began to build an industrial zone in the beginning of 90s. They belong to the biggest employers in the town and they are- Cembrit CZ, a.s.(producer of roof tiles), Linde Frigera s.r.o. (producer of refrigerating technics), PAI s.r.o. (producer of car components), Českomoravský cement as a member of HeidelbergCement Group.
A real explosion is in the field of individual and group flat constructions. There are built many new flats and family houses, new shopping centres, restaurants and hinterlands for drivers.
Beroun citizens have cooperated with some partner towns for many years-dutch Rijswijk, german Goslar, polish Brzeg. Construction of housing complex in Havlíčkova street in the centre (see picture on the left) by dutch company Bouwfonds is a sample of mutual cooperation. All partner towns supported Beroun in the hardest time, after the destructive flood in August 2002.
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Královské město Beroun ležící na soutoku řek Berounky a Litavky láká k návštěvě nejen svými historickými památkami a bohatou kulturní a sportovní nabídkou, nýbrž i svým překrásným okolím. Je východiskem do dvou chráněných krajinných oblastí - Českého krasu a Křivoklátska. V oblasti, která byla osídlena již od pravěku, vznikla ve třináctém století při brodu přes řeku Mži (Berounku) osada. Procházela jí významná obchodní stezka vedoucí z Prahy do Plzně a dále do Bavor. První písemnou zprávu o městě nacházíme v listině Přemysla Otakara II. z roku 1265. Latinský název Verona byl do němčiny překládán jako Bern, do češtiny jako Berona, Berún a Beroun. Město však brzy zpustlo a musilo být znovu vybudováno za vlády Václava II. Byly založeny nové hradby a ochozy a byl založen i klášter dominikánů. V roce 1303 udělil panovník Berounu majestát, podle něhož se město mohlo spravovat právem Starého Města pražského.
Dnešní Beroun má 17 648 obyvatel. Jeho dominantou je budova radnice na Husově náměstí, jejíž pseudorenesanční podoba pochází z roku 1903. Z velmi zachovalého městského opevnění z 1. poloviny 14. století se těší zájmu turistů Pražská a Plzeňská brána, zbytky hradeb, hradebního příkopu a bašt. Město proslulo i svými hrnčířskými trhy, na které se už sedm let sjíždějí nejlepší hrnčíři a keramici z celé republiky. Právě hrnčíři patřili ve středověku k váženým a uznávaným řemeslníkům. Velkou atrakcí je také berounská Městská hora s rozhlednou a medvědáriem, kde žijí od roku 2000 hrdinové televizního Večerníčku Méďové Matěj, Vojta a Kuba. Město Beroun má ve znaku a na svém praporu medvěda a nyní se může pochlubit i medvědy živými.
Beroun je významným centrem lehkého a středního průmyslu. Svou průmyslovou zónu začal budovat už na počátku 90. let a zdejší podniky - Cembrit CZ, a.s. (výrobce střešní krytiny), Linde Frigera s.r.o. (výrobce chladírenské techniky) či PAI s.r.o. (výrobce automobilových součástek) patří společně s akciovou společností Českomoravský cement, člena skupiny HeidelbergCement Group v České republice mezi nejvýznamnější zaměstnavatele ve městě.
Skutečnou explozi zaznamenala v posledním období hromadná i individuální bytová výstavba. V letech 2004 a 2005 bylo v severozápadní části města, v lokalitě Palouček dokončeno dvanáct bytových domů s 323 novými byty, další bytové jednotky se začnou v blízké době stavět v jejich těsném sousedství. V centru města naproti Grandhotelu Beroun byla v roce 2005 dokončena výstavba polyfunkčního komplexu s obchodními plochami i bytovými jednotkami, v areálu bývalých kasáren staví město 50 malometrážních bytů pro sociálně slabé občany a bytová výstavba se plánuje i v bývalém pivovaru u řeky Berounky.
Berounští už řadu let spolupracují s několika partnerskými městy - holandským Rijswijkem, německým Goslarem a nově také s polským Brzegem. Ukázkou vzájemné spolupráce může být například výstavba obytného souboru v Havlíčkově ulici v centru města dceřinou společností významné holandské firmy na poli bytové výstavby Bouwfonds. Všechna partnerská města pak Beroun podpořila i v době nejtěžší, když se vzpamatovával z rozsáhlých škod způsobených ničivou povodní v srpnu 2002.
Why does the Disney Character Pinocchio hug with Mickey Mouse while he wears his bright red shorts with yellow buttons replacing the white polka dots?
Pss Mickey Mouse's red shorts are overalls.
Why does the Disney Character Pinocchio hug with Mickey Mouse while he wears his bright red shorts? Answer:Because the Disney Character Pinocchio thinks Mickey Mouse's bright red shorts are made of cotton fabric and warm and cozy. The Disney Character Pinocchio has bright red cotton fabric short overalls with yellow buttons. Once the Disney Character Pinocchio hugs with Mickey Mouse while he wears his bright red shorts first Mickey Mouse grows yellow buttons over the place of the white polka dots of his bright red shorts Disney Character Pinocchio's stomach is touching Mickey Mouse's stomach, part of Mickey Mouse's bright red shorts are touching Disney Character Pinocchio's light yellow shirt, Disney Character Pinocchio's arms are on top of Mickey Mouse's shoulders and wrapped around Mickey Mouse's neck, Disney Character Pinocchio's legs are wrapped around the back of Mickey Mouse's red shorts, and Mickey Mouse is holding the Disney Character Pinocchio from the bottom. And the Disney Character Pinocchio loves hugging with Mickey Mouse while he wears his bright red shorts. So the Disney Character Pinocchio should hug with Mickey Mouse while he wears his bright red shorts. So the Disney Character Pinocchio is made out of wood when he hugs with Mickey Mouse while he wears his bright red shorts. We can make a sequel to Walt Disney's Pinocchio with all of this. The Disney Character Pinocchio says "Mmmmmmmmm!" when he is hugging with Mickey Mouse with his bright red shorts with yellow buttons replacing the white polka dots. Pinocchio became a Disney Character in 1939. Appearance of Disney Character Pinocchio is Slender marionette, handsome, slightly pudgy face, black hair, blue eyes, 4 fingers on each hand, yellow shirt, blue bow tie, white opera gloves, bright red cotton fabric short overalls with yellow buttons, black vest, yellow Robin Hood hat with a blue ribbon and a red feather. And the year Pinocchio became a Disney Character was 1939 www.movie-film-review.com/devFilm.asp?ID=8683 .
Replaced in 1985, Hutton Mill Bridge, carry's this local road from Foulden to Paxton over Whiteadder Water
these three were once my most popular mocs (on mocpages) but as time goes on, and mocers become better, they eventually decide to replace their old models, so these Lamborghini Gallardos will be replaced with new ones (hopefully better ones)
ps. wips coming soon! :D
Bulldogs were replaced with Huskies at Drake University's Knapp Center as it played host to Hoover High School's commencement. Hoover celebrated nearly 200 members of the Class of 2022 at their graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 29.
Well my usual coach spots have subsided this week & been replaced with a few vintage trucks, I would imagine this to be circa 1930's, It's a Leyland Beaver of course (as it says on the front) TJ3664 is usually a dropside but is undergoing extensive restoration near.............wait for it.....................Leyland in Lancashire of course! lol nice job :-)
Overview of how to replace batteries in an Avaya Partner ACS phone system processor. This problem is known by a message that will appear on all display phones stating “replace system batteries with power on”.
Replacing a photo taken at PAE 27-Jul-15 with a better version without obstructions 29-Jul-15.
Prototype KC-46A Tanker with boom and underwing 'probe & drogue' pods.
Curtiss had a success with the P-36 Hawk fighter, but so quickly was aerial technology moving in the 1930s that it was nearly obsolete before it even reached full production. To update the design without radically changing it, Curtiss modified a P-36A, replacing the radial engine with an inline Allison V-1710. This streamlined the front of the P-36, lessening drag while maintaining power. Though the V-1710 lacked a supercharger, this was not considered a problem in 1938, and impressed with its performance—especially as the RAF and Luftwaffe were reequipping with inline-engined fighters such as the Supermarine Spitfire and Messerschmitt Bf 109—the US Army Air Corps ordered over 500 P-40B Tomahawks. It also lacked range, but as the Tomahawk was intended as a point-defense interceptor, this was overlooked. A French order for P-40Bs was not filled before the fall of France in May 1940, and so this order was diverted to the RAF as the P-40C/D Kittyhawk. When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, the P-40B was the principal fighter of the USAAF, while RAF P-40Cs were active in North Africa and the P-40B-equipped American Volunteer Group—the famous “Flying Tigers”—were forming in China.
Facing the Japanese Ki-27s and A6M Zeroes in Southeast Asia, and Luftwaffe Bf 109Es in North Africa, P-40 pilots learned that their craft could not manuever with the lighter, more nimble Axis fighters, and that the P-40’s lack of a supercharger put it at a severe disadvantage over 15,000 feet, where it would be sluggish. The armament of two .50 caliber machine guns in the nose and four .30 caliber machine guns in the wings was also considered inadequate against the cannon-armed Axis fighters. Independently, however, both the RAF in North Africa and the AVG in China discovered the P-40’s saving grace: its toughness and weight.
If the P-40 was a poor climber and inadequate in the turn, it was deadly in a dive. P-40 pilots learned to establish altitude over their Axis opponents, then dive, blast through the formation, and use the velocity built up in the dive to return to altitude. Even if the P-40 was intercepted, its robust construction and use of armor around the cockpit meant that it could survive a good deal of punishment; because its level speed was faster than the Bf 109 or the Zero, P-40 pilots could always choose to simply abandon a fight and retreat to fight another day. Even the Zero was at a disadvantage against these tactics: hard turns and dives that were normal for a P-40 would rip the wings off a Zero, and if the P-40 could get away from a Zero, the reverse was not true. Despite being technically inferior to their opponents, the AVG shot down 247 Japanese aircraft for the loss of only four aircraft in air combat.
The earlier P-40B/C variants gave way to the more advanced P-40E, which deleted the nose guns in favor of six .50 caliber machine guns in the wings, and the P-40F/L, which replaced the Allison engine with the more efficient Rolls-Royce Merlin, which improved high altitude performance; to counter the higher torque, the fuselage was extended. These later marks were nicknamed Warhawk.
Final versions included the P-40M/N series, which reintroduced the Allison engine (as there was a shortage of popular Merlins) but kept the stretched fuselage, and cut down the rear fuselage; one weakness of other P-40 variants was a lack of vision to the rear. By the time the P-40 ended production in December 1944, the war had begun to leave it behind: higher-performance aircraft such as the P-51 were in service, and the Warhawk’s lack of range limited its effectiveness. Nonetheless, it was the only American fighter that was in service at the beginning of the war that would finish it. Nearly 14,000 were produced between 1938 and 1944. At the end of the war, the P-40 was rapidly taken out of service due to its obsolescence; however, its popularity among veterans meant that over 80 would be preserved in museums, with 19 still airworthy.
This P-40 is yet another of Dad's models he built for my characters in my novel "Audacity"--again, Akela Canis. In Canis' backstory, he started flying P-40Es with the 57th Fighter Group (a real unit) in North Africa before getting his own command with the 8th AF in England. This is a straight out-of-the-box P-40, using the 1/48 Monogram kit, painted in standard USAAF camouflage for 1943 over the Mediterranean and North Africa--two shades of brown over RAF-style light blue, with early USAAF roundels. The 57th FG did not fly with sharkmouths, but no P-40 looks right without one. The little name on the cowling is "Fifinella," the nickname of female gremlins.
This building was replaced by the four-story Stroehmann's Vienna Bakery factory expansion in 1911.
Ohio Valley Roofing Co., touted as the "largest roofers in the City" in 1906, specialized in tile, slate, tin, cornices, skylights, gravel, vulcanite, asphalt roofing, roof repairing and painting, and roofers' supplies.
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SHANLING ヘッドホンアンプ UA2.
元々ついていたハイレゾロゴのシールを剥がしたら、その下にレーザー加工で刻印されていました。
・・・シール必要なかったな。
ハイレゾのロゴステッカーが剥がれてきたので、AliExpressで購入。
さすがパチモンだけあって微妙にフォントが違う。
We had a weekend in Borrowdale recently, a Christmas present that we tagged a day on to. After calling at work on Saturday morning to open for business we headed up the motorway to Penrith. The road through the central lakes was washed away in the recent floods and it is going to be a long job replacing it. This made the diverted journey around 145 miles but we had a good run up there. We wanted to get walking ASAP so we pulled in at Threlkeld with a view to heading up Clough Head, and subject to conditions, head over the Dodds and back by the Old Coach Road. We had left appalling weather at home, wind, rain, fog and sleet on the tops. Thankfully it was better further north. There was laying snow on the summits, it was fairly calm low down and some summits were cloud free.
We left the car at 11.10 in our winter gear, straight up through the quarries and the steep scree slope (another Red Screes), by now we were into the snow line. The cloud was down, the wind gale force and the summit frozen hard – a different world up here. South next to Calfhow Pike, the wind made it difficult to talk and it was around -4 so the there was a fair wind-chill factor. It was tough going to our next top – Great Dodd, part of the Helvellyn massif – It was to icy to walk in places which meant deviating from the path, and losing our bearings, visibility was around ten yards with spindrift creating a whiteout at times. We battled on to the top and found the summit cairn. Great Dodd isn’t the easiest top to find your way off in low visibility, we would have gone further but in these conditions it was pointless so we retraced our steps to Calfhow and clear conditions. From here we followed Mosedale beck to Mariel Bridge, which is on the Old Coach Road, this gave us a circular route back to our start. The Old Coach Road has been wrecked by the floods and the 4x4 off roaders are making it a lot worse. 9.25 miles in 3 ¼ hours and we were in Brysons Tearooms in Keswick for Coffee and cake by 3.45pm. We carried on to Borrowdale and checked in at our hotel, not a bad day really.
After a poor night in a poor bed we were breakfasted and out for 8.30. We drove the few miles up to Seatoller and we were kitted up and away at 9.10. A bitterly cold and icy morning, there was some sun but not as much as promised. We could see the summit of Great End covered in cloud, we were heading up there on to the Sca Fell massif. We followed the valley to the east of Seathwaite Fell, a new path for us. Once in the snow the going was very icy with the path ice covered in places. The snow was dry and powdery and in places it had blown over the underlying ice. At this point I might add, we do own crampons. After a winter of splashing around soaked we didn’t expect to need them and they were at home – very clever! This was our first real winters day this winter, other than an hour on Sca Fell Pike on Christmas Day, we haven’t seen winter conditions this winter. By the time we got to Esk Hause it was difficult to stay upright and on our way to Great End we had to pick our way very carefully around the worst of the ice. The spindrift made it difficult to see the ground at times, spinning around our feet in a mist. Once on the summit the cloud was thick and the wind speed high. We had been here fairly recently so I knew the layout of the summit and we had little difficulty finding the summit cairn. We were cursing our lack of crampons and the cloud. Instead of heading into the cloud along the Sca Fell Pike path we decided to get under the cloud, back to Esk Hause and head over Allen Crags and Glaramara. At this point we both took some heavy falls, as did others up there, a lot turned around and headed back down, it was deadly. The cloud had thickened, there wasn’t a ray of sun to soften things. Our chosen route was one of the hardest afternoons we had ever had. Everywhere was frozen solid, we had to kick toe or heel holes to move on slopes that we wouldn’t have broken stride on normally. Minor rock scrambles down steep crags had become life threatening in places and we proceeded with extreme care. The knees were creaking on the long descent to Seathwaite. 10.3 miles in six hours, almost half the speed of yesterday. We made it Keswick for afternoon tea – and bought some Micro Spikes for unfinished business to deal with tomorrow. A beautiful day was forecast so fingers crossed we headed back for a soak in the tub.
Day three, a gorgeous icy, sunny winters day. Things looked promising. We left along yesterday’s route at the same start time – with walking poles and Micro Spikes! At the top of the valley we met a guy who had set off before us, two guys known to him were picking their way through the crags, tiny specks on the 800 foot rocky crag. Some appeared to have tried to climb the snow filled chimney that runs to the summit but we heard later that conditions weren’t suitable. Even though it was minus four the sun had softened the snow just enough to get a grip and it was easier to avoid the worst of the ice, unlike yesterday. The summit of Great End was incredible with never ending vistas. We could see a steady stream of walkers on every path by now. Word had got out that we were in for a rare treat today, plus it was school half term so a lot of people were off work. I visited every possible viewpoint as we went to the summit of Ill Crag , Broad Crag and finally Sca Fell Pike. It was 1.00 PM by now and a steady stream of elated walkers were arriving on England’s highest point. It was bitter but beautiful. We had around five miles back to the car along the Corridor Route to Styhead, Stockley Bridge and Seathwaite. Part of this route we had covered recently on Christmas Day and despite the snow and ice we powered along. We would have been back in two hours but! A mile from the car, following the manmade path down Taylorgill Force to Stockley Bridge Jayne Stumbled. It’s not often she walks in front. I normally lead and relay instructions and warnings back to her. She hit the rock path with her head and face really hard, stunned, she rolled off the path over a drop. She was vertical, resting on a rock on her knees and clinging on to the edge of the path with her fingertips. I grabbed her rucksack and held her whilst I checked her injuries. She had a bad bump on her temple, another on her forehead, split the bridge or her nose, her glasses had gone flying but would straighten. Being left handed she had stuck her left hand out and it had been bent back, it was swelling and discolouring pretty fast. When I had established that nothing was serious enough to stop her moving I got her back on to the path to see to her injuries. The pain initially made her think that she was in a worse state than ( I thought) she really was. She could move her fingers and wrist, albeit with some pain but not enough for it to be broken. The wound to the bridge of her nose although very painful wasn’t going to be a problem. The bumps on her head were turning into eggs by now. I gave her Ibuprofen and Paracetemol and she sat and composed herself for the final mile. We made it to the café in Keswick and got a slightly later afternoon break, our first of the day again. 11.3 miles today in 6 ¼ hours and fairly tough going. It was nothing more than a careless, tired perhaps, stumble on one of the horrible ( our own opinion, I might add) manmade paths made out of irregular stones which are laid at odd angles and are a nightmare to descend when wet on tired legs. A few days later and Jayne is sat on reception at the doctors looking like she’s been boxing, with a purple eye and nose, her left hand swollen and purple – otherwise she’s OK. I came down with mild food poisoning during the night and had to drive 145 miles home at 8.00 the morning after feeling extremely ill. I was due to start fasting for a Colonoscopy in three days. I ended up eating six slices of toast over a four day period – Monday evening to Thursday evening- Having had over 40 stomach endoscopies in twenty years the colonoscopy was nothing more than uncomfortable and , subject to biopsy results, everything looked OK. The trapped wind was another matter – for two days! All in all a very traumatic week. Needless to say we didn’t use the Micro Spikes.
Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened on April 6, 1992, replacing Memorial Stadium as the home field of the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball. The success of HOK Sport's retro-style Camden Yards sparked a trend in other cities of constructing more traditional, fan-friendly ballparks in downtown locations.
Built on land that once served as the rail yard for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Camden Station, the view from much of the park is dominated by the former B&O Warehouse behind the right-field wall. The 1,116-foot long eight-story brick structure was constructed between 1899 and 1905. With 430,000 square feet (almost 40,000 m²) of floor space it was advertised as being large enough to hold a thousand carloads of freight. The warehouse was used by the B&O through the 1960's, but was motly vacant by the 1970s. Today, it contains team offices for the Orioles, service spaces, and a private club.
Eutaw Street, between the stadium and the warehouse, is closed to vehicular traffic and open to ticketholders fans who can get watch the action from Standing Room Only areas, or visit the many shops and restaurants that line the thoroughfare, including Boog's BBQ. Many home run balls have landed on Eutaw Street, and the spots are marked with small baseball-shaped bronze plaques, including one for the only ball to ever hit the warehouse--a 445-foot shot by Ken Griffey Jr. on July 12, 1993 during the 1993 All Star Game Home Run Derby. The Orioles Hall of Fame plaques are located near the north end of Eutaw Street, and, just outside Gate H are 4-foot aluminum monuments depicting retired Orioles uniform numbers and Susan Luery's statue of Babe Ruth, Babe's Dream.
Camden Yards is the first major league park to have an outfield wall made up entirely of straight wall segments since Ebbets Field. The playing field is 16 feet below street level. The bullpen area was designed after many write-in designs were submitted by the public. Its unique two-tiered design was a first in major league parks. The scoreboard in center field advertises The Baltimore Sun--the "H" in "The Sun" flashes to show a scoring decision of a hit, and the "E" flashes to show an error.
In 2007, Oriole Park at Camden Yards was ranked #122 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Before March 2 2015, please come here to nominate the entire Chinatown as the historic site to be preserved, don't expect City of Vancouver to save Chinatown when the Council approved more condo to be built in Chinatown at rapid rate to destroy the Chinatown.
www.heritagebc.ca/blog?articleid=162
Chinese Historic Places Recognition Project
THE HERITAGE BATTLE FOR CHINATOWN
Historic Vancouver neighbourhood is being redeveloped, raising fears it will lose its character.
By JOHN MACKIE, VANCOUVER SUN November 15, 2014
The marketing line for the Keefer Block condo development in Chinatown is “Heritage Meets Modern.”
But just how much heritage will be left after a wave of modern developments washes over the historic district is a matter of debate.
A new proposal for the 700-block of Main Street would demolish the last three buildings from Hogan’s Alley, a once-notorious back lane that was the longtime home of Vancouver’s black community.
Another condo development at 231 Pender would replace a funky, Chinese-themed garage that is listed on Canada’s Register of Historic Places. Angelo Tosi’s family has owned their building at 624 Main since 1930. It may date back to 1895, and looks it — the fixtures and shelving are as old as the hills.
But Tosi is 82, and will probably sell when the price is right. He doesn’t expect his store to survive.
“It’ll be gobbled up by the monstrous buildings,” said Tosi. “And then they’ll take it all, and it’s finished. They won’t keep the heritage on the bottom, they’ll put down whatever they want.”
His fatalistic attitude reflects the changes in Chinatown, which is undergoing a development boom after zoning changes by the City of Vancouver.
The protected “historic” area of Chinatown is now Pender Street, while much of Main, Georgia and Keefer can now be redeveloped, with heights of up to 90 feet (nine storeys). A few sites can go even higher.
Two towers are going up at Keefer and Main — the nine-storey, 81-unit Keefer Block, and the 17-storey, 156-unit 188 Keefer. Up the street at 137 Keefer, a development permit application has just gone in for a new nine-storey “multi-family building.”
None of them has stirred up much controversy. But a recent public meeting about a 12-storey, 137-unit condo to be built on an empty lot at Keefer and Columbia got people riled up.
“There was a lot of angry people that night,” said Henry Yu, a UBC history professor who feels a “vision plan” the Chinatown community worked on with the city for several years is being ignored.
“The vision plan gets passed, (but it has) no teeth,” said Yu. “Actually (there is) no policy, it’s a wish list of ‘Oh, we’d like seniors housing, we’d like to do this, we’d like to do that.’
“Almost immediately, the two (highrise) buildings in the 600-, 700-block Main go up, and they’re just basically Yaletown condos. Not even Yaletown — Yaletown has more character.
“These are straight out of the glass tower (model), no (historic) character, obliterating everything in terms of tying it to the kind of streetscape of Chinatown. You’re going to split the historic two or three blocks of Chinatown with a Main Street corridor of these glass towers.”
Yu says Chinatown has historically been small buildings on 25-foot lots, which makes for a jumble of small stores that gives it a unique look and character. But the new developments are much wider, and just don’t look like Chinatown.
“The two 600-, 700-block buildings have a rain shield that’s an awning, a glass awning that runs the whole block,” said Yu. “That’s the design guideline for the city as a whole, but it was nothing to do with Chinatown, (which is) narrow frontages, changing awnings.
“We said that (to the city planners), we raised it and raised it, but the planners just shoved it down our throat.”
Kevin McNaney is Vancouver’s assistant director of planning. He said the city changed the zoning in parts of Chinatown to help revitalize the neighbourhood, which has been struggling.
“We have been taking a look across Chinatown,” said McNaney. “What we’re finding is that rents are dropping, and vacancies are rising. And that’s a big part of the strategy of adding more people to revitalize Chinatown.
“There are only 900 people currently living in Chinatown, many of them seniors. It’s just not the population base needed to support businesses, so a lot of the businesses are going under. Along Pender Street you see a lot of vacancies right now.
“So at the heart of this plan is to bring more people to revitalize Chinatown, and also use that development to support heritage projects, affordable housing projects and cultural projects.”
Henry Yu disagrees. “The idea that you need density in Chinatown itself, that you need your own captive customer base, is moronic,” he said.
“Where else in the city would you make that argument, that nobody can walk more than two blocks, that no one is going to come in here from somewhere else?
“They will. People go to the International Summer Market in Richmond in an empty gravel field. Ten thousand people at night come from everywhere in the Lower Mainland, because there’s something worth going to.
“The problem isn’t that you need a captive audience that has no other choice but to shop in Chinatown — that’s just stupid, there’s plenty of people in Strathcona. The problem is, is there something worth coming to (in Chinatown)? And that has to do with the character, what the mix is, what kind of commercial.”
Ironically, all the new construction comes just as Chinatown seems to be undergoing a bit of a renaissance. Several new businesses have popped up in old buildings, attracted by the area’s character and cheap rents.
The très-hip El Kartel fashion boutique recently moved into a 6,000 sq. ft space at 104 East Pender that used to house Cathay Importers. It’s on the main floor of the four-storey Chinese Benevolent Association Building, which was built in 1909.
Across the street at 147 East Pender is Livestock, a runner and apparel store that is so cool it doesn’t even have a sign. “We were in Gastown at the corner of Cordova and Abbott, (and) just felt a change was needed,” said store manager Chadley Abalos.
“We found the opportunity in Chinatown, so we decided to move here. We feel it’s one of the new spots that are booming. You see a lot of new businesses — restaurants, clothing stores, furniture. We see the potential in it growing.”
Russell Baker owns Bombast, a chic furniture store at 27 East Pender. But he is not new to the neighbourhood — Bombast has been there for 10 years.
“I think (Chinatown is) one of the most interesting parts of the city,” he said.
“It’s still got some variety, some texture, architecturally, socially, economically. A lot of what’s happened to the downtown peninsula (in recent years) constitutes erasure. This is one of the places that still sort of feels like … it feels more urban than some parts of downtown. I would say downtown is a vertical suburb.
“If you like cities, Chinatown feels like one. That’s why we’re here.”
Baker said he expected Chinatown to happen a lot sooner than it did. Retailers that do well there still tend to be destinations, rather than stores that rely on heavy street traffic. “The buzz is that Chinatown is happening, but it’s really strategic, what’s happening,” he said. “Fortune Sound Club, that’s a niche market that’s destination. That’s the kind of thing that works down here. We’re destination, Bao Bei (restaurant) is destination.”
The new businesses make for an interesting mix with the old ones. The 200 block East Georgia Street is hopping with hipster bars (the Pacific Hotel, Mamie Taylor’s) and art galleries (Access Gallery, 221A, Centre A). But it also retains classic Chinatown shops like the Fresh Egg Mart and Hang Loong Herbal Products.
The question is whether the small businesses will be displaced as the area gentrifies. Real estate values have soared — Soltera paid $6.5 million for the northwest corner of Keefer and Main in 2011, Beedie Holdings paid $16.2 million for two parcels of land at Columbia and Keefer in 2013.
That seems like a lot for a site that’s two blocks from the troubled Downtown Eastside, but Houtan Rafii of the Beedie Group said that’s what land costs in Vancouver.
“It is a significant, substantial amount of money, but compared to most every area in Vancouver, it’s not dissimilar, whether you’re in Gastown, downtown, Concord-Pacific, even on the boundaries of Strathcona or on Hastings close to Clark or Commercial,” said Rafii. “It’s not an obscene amount of money, it’s market.”
Rafii said the Beedie Group met with local groups for a year about its development, and was surprised at the reaction it got at the public meeting, which was held because Beedie is looking to rezone the site to add an additional three storeys.
Yu doesn’t have a problem with the Beedie proposal per se, but feels it’s on a key site in Chinatown, and should be developed accordingly.
“It’s not the building’s fault,” said Yu.
“People are going ‘What’s wrong with this glass tower, it’s working everywhere else, and Chinese people love buying this stuff if it’s UBC.’
“That’s not the point. There’s plenty of room around the city to build glass towers (that are) 40 storeys, 50 storeys, whatever. Why do they need to be in this spot?
“This one is right in the heart (of Chinatown). Across the street is the Sun Yat-sen (garden), the Chinese Cultural Centre. On the same street is the (Chinese workers) monument. Next door is the back alley of Pender.”
Yu said a recent study found there will be a need for 3,300 income-assisted senior housing beds in the Lower Mainland over the next 15 years. He said the Columbia and Keefer site would be perfect for a seniors project.
“There’s a particular kind of resonance to the idea this is a traditional place where a lot of Chinese seniors can retire to,” he said.
“There is a five-year waiting list for the Simon K.Y. Lee Success long-term care home, so there’s huge demand, huge need, this is a place where they want to go. (Building a seniors home) would actually would help revitalize (Chinatown), because seniors bring sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters into a community.
“That’s the Chinatown vision plan, that’s what’s in there, that’s what those discussions were about. And yet what we’ve got is 137 luxury condo units for hip youngsters. That’s the Beedie proposal, and that’s what the last two towers (on Main) were. It’s not just insulting, it’s the thwarting of the very promise (of the vision plan).”
Wu would like to see a moratorium on new developments in Chinatown “until design guidelines are actually built to create a zone that respects the (area’s special) character.”
Retired city planner Nathan Edelson agrees. Which is significant, because he worked on the Chinatown vision plan for over a decade.
“My suggestion is that there should be a moratorium on the rezonings, for sure, until they can get an assessment of what the current new development is,” said Edelson. “To what degree are they contributing to, or harming Chinatown, the historic character of Chinatown? And it’s not an obvious answer.”
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We're taking a new approach to how we perform critical inspection and maintenance of subway components that are necessary to providing reliable service -- FASTRACK. The third implementation of FASTRACK is taking place on the Sixth Avenue B/D/F/M Line from 57 Street to W 4 Street from Feb. 27 to March 2, 2012. Because a section of the subway is closed to trains for seven consecutive hours, FASTRACK is a safer and more efficient way to maintain and clean New York City's sprawling subway — a system that never closes.
With no trains running along Sixth Avenue, 800 MTA employees are able to inspect signals, replace rails and cross ties, scrape track floors, clean stations and paint areas that are not reachable during normal train operation. Workers also took the opportunity to clean lighting fixtures, change bulbs and repair platform edges while performing high-intensity station cleaning.
Photo by Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Leonard Wiggins.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 27-Aug-18.
Named: "Innsbruck".
This aircraft was delivered to Austrian Airlines as OE-LMM in Mar-90. It was sold to a lessor in Jul-01 and immediately leased to Vanguard Airlines (USA) as N136NJ. Vanguard ceased operations at the end of Jul-02. It was returned to the lessor and initially stored at Kansas City, MO, USA before being moved to Tucson, AZ, USA in Oct-02 for further storage. The aircraft was leased to AeroMexico XA-TXH in May-03 and returned to the lessor in Feb-09. It was sold to Allegiant Air for spares as N399NV the following week and ferried to Mojave, CA, USA where it was permanently retired. The aircraft was last noted at Mojave in Apr-10 with both sides of the fuselage cut out.
Note: The registration OE-LMM was used again by Austrian charter airline MAP Jet between Dec-06/Sep-08. That aircraft, an MD-83, had previously been operated by Austrian Airlines as OE-LME.
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better version 06-Sep-19.
I was lucky enough to catch this on it's first visit to Manchester, UK. It's only visited Manchester twice... This is one of a series of photos taken on the day...
Originally built to carry the Russian version of the Space Shuttle (you can see some of the faired-in attachment points on the upper fuselage), The space shuttle was cancelled and the aircraft later became the worlds largest freighter. It was the only example built although a second aircraft was started, it was never completed and still sits, like an outsize Airfix Kit, in a hangar at the Antonov factory.
Built in 1906-1917, this Beaux Arts-style Capitol Building was designed by George B. Post to house the state house of representatives, state senate, and offices for the Wisconsin State Government. The fourth state capitol to house the state government since the state’s establishment in 1848, the building is the third building to sit on the present site, and replaced the previous state capitol, built in 1857-1869 and expanded in 1882, which burned down in February of 1904. The capitol houses both the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate, as well as the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Office of the Governor of Wisconsin. The first capitol of Wisconsin upon the formation of Wisconsin Territory in 1836 was in the village of Belmont, Wisconsin, with the legislature meeting in a hastily constructed wood-frame building, before deciding to designate the future site of Madison as the state capitol, and holding further sessions of the legislature in the much better-developed Mississippi River port town of Burlington (now in Iowa) until a capitol building could be completed in Madison. Upon Burlington becoming part of the new Iowa Territory, the state legislature moved to a log and stone building on the present site of the state capitol, a relatively humble Greek Revival-style building constructed in 1837, which looked much like older capitol buildings in the eastern United States, with doric columns and a rusticated fieldstone exterior. It was most similar to the Old State House in North Carolina, built only four years prior, and the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, built in the same year, though these two similar buildings were built almost entirely of stone blocks rather than fieldstone. The small second capitol building was the first state capitol of Wisconsin upon its ascension to statehood in 1848, but had become inadequate for the growing population and government by the 1850s. The original building was demolished and replaced with a larger, Classical Revival-style structure with Romanesque Revival elements constructed in stages between 1857 and 1869, which featured a dome inspired by the United Capitol Building, semi-circular porticoes with corinthian columns, and two short side wings with octagonal towers at the corners, which were modified and extended in 1882 with new wings that increased the Classical Revival aspects of the building and helped to downplay the Romanesque Revival elements that originally were very prominent on the structure. This building was oriented with the semi-circular original porticoes aligned with State Street and King Street, with the wings being oriented towards both sections of Hamilton Street, though the building appeared rather small within the large parklike expanse of Capitol Square. By the turn of the 20th Century, the old Capitol had become inadequate for the growing needs of Wisconsin, which had become wealthy, industrialized, and heavily populated by that point, so study of a replacement capitol building began in 1903. In February 1904, the old State Capitol burned to the ground when a gas jet ignited a newly varnished ceiling inside the building, which spread quickly despite the building featuring a then-advanced sprinkler system, as the reservoir of the nearby University of Wisconsin was empty, which allowed the fire to spread out of control. The north wing of the building, built in 1882, was the only portion that survived, with many relics, records, and important historical items being lost in the fire, though the state law library was saved thanks to efforts by University of Wisconsin students. The fire also happened just after the state legislature had voted to cancel the fire insurance policy on the building, thinking it was a costly and unnecessary folly.
The present building was built on the site of the previous building, with the construction process focusing on completing each wing one at a time to provide space to the state government with as much fiscal efficiency as possible due to financial limitations. Due to this, the north wing was built last to allow the remaining portion of the previous capitol to serve as space for the state government during the construction period, with the central rotunda and dome also being built after the other three wings had been completed, as they serve a more symbolic and less utilitarian purpose than the rest of the building. The building stands 284 feet (86 meters) tall to the top of the statue on the dome, which was sculpted in 1920 by Daniel Chester French, and is a personification of the state of Wisconsin, with the outstretched arm of the statue representing the state motto, “Forward”. The exterior of the building is clad in Bethel white granite, sourced from Vermont, with an additional 42 types of stone from a total of eight states and six countries being utilized on the interior of the building. The dome is the largest in the world to be entirely clad in granite, and is the tallest building in Madison, with a state law passed in 1990 stipulating that any building within a one-mile radius of the capitol is limited in height to the base of the columns of the dome, which stand at 187 feet, which preserves the visibility of the building from the surrounding landscape. The building has a greek cross footprint with four five-story wings that are aligned with the compass directions and radial streets following the compass directions that slice through the surrounding street grid, which is at a 45-degree angle to compass directions, instead roughly paralleling the shorelines of nearby Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, with Downtown Madison sitting on an isthmus between the two lakes. This places the building at a unique 45-degree angle orientation relative to the edges of Capitol Square and most buildings on adjacent streets. The building was one of the last works of the prolific architect George B. Post, whom died before the building was completed. The building underwent a major renovation in the 1970s that added modern features to the interior and covered up many original features, with later projects between 1988 and 2002 restoring the building while updating the building’s systems and functions for the modern needs of the state government.
The exterior of the building’s wings feature porticoes on the ends with corinthian columns, arched windows on the third floor, rusticated bases with entrance doors and decorative keystones, decorative reliefs featuring festoons over the windows on the porticoes, cornices with modillions and dentils, and pediments with sculptural reliefs, which were created by several sculptors, and have different symbolism embodied by their design. On the east wing, which is home to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the sculpture known as Law, created by Karl Bitter, is located on the portico pediment, on the west wing, which houses the chamber of the Wisconsin Assembly, is a sculpture known as Agriculture, also created by Karl Bitter, on the north wing, which is home to a hearing chamber, is the sculpture known as Virtues and Traits of Character, created by Adolph Alexander Weinman, and on the south wing, which houses the chamber of the Wisconsin Senate, is a sculpture known as Wisdom and Learning of the World, created by Attilio Piccirilli. The sides of the wings feature simpler cornices with dentils, pilasters and recessed window openings with arched openings at the ground floor, windows with decorative pedimented headers on the second floor, arched windows on the third floor, two small two-over-two windows on the fourth floor, and a recessed fifth floor features small paired windows, hidden behind a balustrade that runs around the entirety of the building minus the ends of the wings, concealing a low-slope roof at the setbacks on the sides of the wings and above the corner porticoes. The upper roofs of the wings are low-slope with front gabled portions in the middle punctured by skylights, with the roof being almost entirely enclosed by a parapet. At the center of the building in the inside corners of the greek cross are semi-circular portions of the facade with semi-circular two-story ionic porticos with large terraces and grand staircases featuring decorative copper lampposts, decorative stone balustrades, concealed entrances to the ground floor underneath the terraces, and three doorways on the upper level, with drums surrounded by buttresses featuring small windows and domed roofs above the balustrade on the fifth floor. In the center of the building is the rotunda, which is topped with a large dome that rises from a tall base that terminates in a balustrade, with a low-slope roof at the base of the drum of the dome, which features a level with small windows at the base, with projected pavilions at the corners above the semi-circular porticoes below, which were originally to support four smaller domes, but ended up supporting sculptures by Karl Bitter, symbolizing strength, faith, prosperity, and abundance and knowledge. The drum of the dome is surrounded by a corinthian colonnade with corinthian pilasters on the exterior wall of the dome behind the colonnade, arched windows, and recessed decorative panels at the top of the colonnade below the architrave. Above the architrave is a cornice with modillions and dentils, above which is another balustrade, accessed via doors from the interior space above the inner dome of the rotunda, and ringed by six-over-six windows, pilasters, and a cornice with egg and dart motif at the top. Above this last cornice is the dome, which is ribbed, with the ribs terminating in voluted upside down brackets at the base, and clad in granite, terminating at the top at a balustrade around the base of the lantern. The cylindrical landern features corinthian columns, arched windows, festoons, with a concavely sloped roof featuring rubs terminating in volutes, above which is the base of the Wisconsin statue, which is coated in gold leaf.
The interior of the building is richly decorated with Beaux Arts detailing, utilizing plaster, a diverse array of stone and woodwork, engaged columns and pilasters, murals, vaulted ceilings, decorative balustrades, grand staircases, and modern oak furniture. The interior dome features a mural by Edwin Howland Blashfield, known as Resources of Wisconsin, which sits in the middle of the dome’s coffered ceiling, above the upper balcony at the base of the drum. The rotunda features green and white marble corinthian columns with gold leaf on the capitals, vaulted alcoves on the sides with coffered ceilings, a stone floor, and features marble from Tennessee, Missouri, Vermont, Georgia, New York, and Maryland, granite from Wisconsin and Minnesota, limestone from Minnesota and Illinois, marble from France, Italy, Greece, Algeria and Germany, and syenite from Norway. A large circular opening in the floor of the center of the rotunda allows light into the lower level of the building, and is supported by a ring of square columns underneath. The light fixtures in the space are a combination of lampposts and sconces. The pendentives below the drum of the dome in the rotunda are decorated with glass mosaics by artist Kenyon Cox. The interior’s decoration denotes hierarchy of space, with the level of detail varying throughout the building’s interior from simple offices and service areas to the grand public spaces, such as the rotunda and government meeting chambers. The two-story senate chamber is circular with marble cladding, corinthian columns, and pilasters on the walls, a decorative ceiling with a central shallow domed decorative glass skylight, and coffers with rosettes, with murals above the main podium, and balconies inside the alcoves behind the columns for spectators and observers. The two-story assembly chamber features a similar shallow domed decorative glass skylight on the ceiling, but is square in shape with decorative pendentives and arches on the perimeter of the space opening into alcoves with vaulted ceilings, with wood paneling and a large mural behind the main podium, and balconies in the upper level of the alcoves. The supreme court chamber is square with a square decorative glass skylight in the room’s coffered ceiling, white marble pilasters, paneling, and murals on the walls, and arched niches housing candelabra-type lamppost light fixtures. The north wing hearing chamber features a massive cove ceiling with decorative trim and murals, with a large square decorative glass skylight in the middle, and walls lined with ionic pilasters and stone panels. The Governor’s Conference Room, located in the east wing, features a heavily decorated ceiling with multiple coffers housing murals, decorative stained woodwork, a fireplace with a decorative marble surround flanked by two corinthian columns, and gold leaf on some of the trim. The interior of the building is even more richly detailed than the exterior.
The building, which has been fully modernized and restored to some semblance of its original appearance, remains the seat of the government of Wisconsin, presently the 25th largest by land area and 20th largest by population in the United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, owing to its historical and architectural significance, and was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 2001. The building visually dominates the isthmus that makes up Downtown Madison, and sits in the city’s central square, one of the most visually impressive and stunning sitings of any capitol building in the United States.