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A random snapshot of the old circuit cut-out switches that were on one of the old utility poles that were recently replaced on Main Street in the Pearlhaven Community in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
These cutouts are quite large up close when they are on the ground compared to them being up on top of the pole when it was in service.
This old pole had a lever switch that when it was turned, it would open up these electrical circuits, cutting power down the lines... when the circuits are closed, the electrical power flows through.
For those that do not know, the power lines or cables are called ''conductors'' whilst the porcelain ceramic bits that stop the flow of electricity as well as holding the wires on the poles are called ''insulators.''
To release the memory you will need to push the metal handles that are located on the sides of the memory away from the memory.
The memory chip will pop up.
Take it out. Insert the new memory at a 45 degree angle (just like the old memory was when it poped up) and push it down until you hear a click.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 02-Oct-24.
Named: "Janice Joplin".
This aircraft was delivered a lessor and leased to Lauda Air as OE-LNI in Feb-93. It was wet-leased to Aeris (France) for 4 weeks in Jun/Jul-03 and to Edelweiss Air (Switzerland) in Sep-04.
Lauda Air was merged into Austrian Airlines in early Oct-04 and the aircraft was returned to them at the end of Oct-04. It was returned to the lessor in Jun-05 and immediately leased to Ukraine International Airlines as UR-GAP.
The aircraft was wet-leased to Blue Panorama Airlines (Italy) between Jun/Oct-14. It was returned to the lessor as N837AC in Nov-14 and stored at Miami, FL, USA.
It was converted to freighter configuration with a main deck cargo door at Miami in Jul-15 and leased to JetTime A/S Cargo (Denmark) as OY-JTM the same month.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Feb-17 and leased to ASL Airlines Ireland Ltd as EI-STM in Mar-17. it was withdrawn from service and initially stored at Shannon, Ireland in Apr-25.
In mid Jun-25 it was moved to St. Athan, Wales, UK for further storage. The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Aug-25 as 2-ITSM (it was initially painted as 2-ISTM in error) and remained stored at St.Athan. It's thought to be permanently retired. Updated 20-Jan-26.
This set of images shows step-by-step how to replace the keyboard.
Step 1- open the laptop and fold back the screen. Locate the small indentation on the right hand side of the grey strip above the keyboard and carefully prise the strip up using a small flat-blade screwdriver.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 07-Mar-25.
Fleet No: "006". Named: "Robert F. Six"
This aircraft was delivered to Continental Airlines as N77006 in Dec-98. Continental was merged into United Airlines in Oct-10. Now over 26 years old, the aircraft continues in service. Updated 07-Mar-25.
To replace the ageing Predator and Reaper drones, the US Airforce comminsioined a new line of unmanned ariel vechiles with the ability to loiter over battlefields for a continuous stream of intelligence. Thus the Albatross was born. Equipped with a coxial 50 caliber machingun, the Albatross is capable of both light air support and up to date real time battlegied information. Several models have been shipped out to key US allies all over the world.
Coney Island, Brooklyn.
Between about 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States, attracting several million visitors per year. At its height it contained three competing major amusement parks, Luna Park, Dreamland, and Steeplechase Park, as well as many independent amusements.
Astroland served as a major amusement park from 1962 to 2008. It was replaced by a new incarnation of Dreamland in 2009 and of Luna Park in 2010. The other parks and attractions are: Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park (a successful family owned park with over 20 rides located directly on the Boardwalk), 12th Street Amusements, and Kiddie Park. Also, the Eldorado arcade has its own indoor bumper car ride. The Zipper and Spider on 12th Street were closed permanently on September 4, 2007 and dismantling begun, after its owner lost his lease. They are to be reassembled at an amusement park in Honduras.
Rides
Dante's Inferno, part of Astroland
World-famous Cyclone roller coaster.
The Wonder Wheel
Wonder Wheel Pavilion at Coney Island
The Parachute Jump towers over the Coney Island boardwalk
Today, the amusement area contains various rides, games such as skeeball, ball tossing, and a sideshow; games of shooting and throwing and tossing skills.
The rides and other amusements at Coney Island are owned and managed by several different companies, and operate independently of each other. It is not possible to purchase season tickets to the attractions in the area.
Three rides at Coney Island are protected as designated NYC landmarks and listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
* Wonder Wheel. Built in 1918 and opened in 1920, this steel Ferris wheel has both stationary cars and rocking cars that slide along a track. It holds 144 riders, stands 150 feet (46 m) tall, and weighs over 2,000 tons. At night the Wonder Wheel's steel frame is outlined and illuminated by neon tubes. It is part of Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park.
* The Cyclone roller coaster, built in 1927, is one of the nation's oldest wooden coasters still in operation. A favorite of some coaster aficionados, the Cyclone includes an 85-foot (26 m), 60 degree drop. It is owned by the City, and was operated by Astroland, under a franchise agreement. It is located across the street from Astroland.
* The Parachute Jump, originally the Life Savers Parachute Jump at the 1939 New York World's Fair, was the first ride of its kind. Patrons were hoisted 190 feet (58 m) in the air before being allowed to drop using guy-wired parachutes. Although the ride has been closed since 1968, it remains a Coney Island landmark and is sometimes referred to as Brooklyn's Eiffel Tower. Between 2002 and 2004, the Jump was completely dismantled, cleaned, painted and restored, but remains inactive. After an official lighting ceremony in July 2006, the Parachute Jump was slated to be lit year round using different color motifs to represent the seasons. However, this idea was scrapped when New York City started conserving electricity in the summer months. It has not been lit regularly since.
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Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 28-Mar-17.
Enlarged from well beyond the range of the 200mm lens I had at the time, so it's a bit grainy.
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better version 24-Dec-19.
First flown with the Airbus test registration F-WWDI in Nov-92, the aircraft was originally ordered by lessor GPA Airbus A320 but the order had been cancelled and the aircraft was stored at Toulouse, France in Dec-92.
It was delivered to ILFC International Lease Finance Corporation and leased to Monarch Airlines as G-OZBB in Mar-94.
It was sub-leased to Skyservice Airlines, Canada as C-FDTW for several winter seasons, between Nov-94/May-95, Nov-95/May-96, Nov-96/Apr-97, Nov-97/Apr-98 and Nov-98/Apr-99. In Dec-99 the aircraft was sub-leased to Airtours International Airways and returned to Monarch in Apr-00.
Between Dec-00/Apr-01 it was off to Canada again for the winter, this time on lease to Canada 3000 as C-GXBB. In Dec-02 the aircraft was sub-leased to Zoom Airlines (Canada) as C-GZUM and returned to Monarch as G-OZBB in Apr-03.
It was returned to the lessor in Nov-13 and permanently retired at Tupelo, MS, USA. It was last noted still there in Apr-14 and the registration was cancelled in May-14.
Nu Image: Surgical and Dental Implant Center
May 29, 2015
Raleigh, NC
The difference was "night and day" when the primary office for Nu Image: Surgical and Dental Implant Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, installed LEDtronics' LED Flat Panel Lights to replace their old-technology fluorescent tube lights in their parabolic troffers.
Both patients and staff alike were very excited when they came in the next day to see how bright the office was. "It actually made the rooms look like they changed color – It made the colors pop," says Kourosh Neshat, who works in Marketing for Nu Image.
The LED Flat Panels were installed in the surgery rooms as well as Dr. Kevin Neshat's office. Dr. Neshat loves the new lights, as they greatly improve visibility and liven up the room. "It makes a very bright and vibrant atmosphere there," says Kourosh.
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Bit of Bradford History going nearby with new lighting replacing the former trolleybus poles (not many left now) in the Avenue Clayton. .
Story I was told about a Trolleybus tour may be of interest-
The Avenue section had not been used for a while as the 36 Motorbus route was extended leaving the Trolleys to turn by the Black Bull so was not on the tour itinerary.
But - someone who worked for the YEB had a key so in went the breakers and the tour trolley was off up the Avenue much to the amazement of a passing Motorbus.
Happy times no H and S nannys to spoil the fun.
May be of interest.
Kev
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.
ISS035-E-037726 (11 May 2013) --- Expedition 35 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy (right) and Tom Marshburn completed a space walk at 2:14 p.m. EDT May 11 to inspect and replace a pump controller box on the International Space Station's far port truss (P6) leaking ammonia coolant. The two NASA astronauts began the 5-hour, 30-minute space walk at 8:44 a.m.
Replacing a temporary vehicle in the fleet of 36-branded vehicles is BF62UXZ, one of 6 brand new Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini 2's that were delivered to Transdev in December 2012 - though personally I think this registraton should have been applied to a Coastliner vehicle and BF62 UYL gone on this one, as it's out of sequence with the rest... though eventually 3613 here will be re-registered X13 VTD.
3613 is the only B9 in the Transdev Harrogate and District fleet, and cost £200,000. This can be told apart from the heavily-refurbished B7's because of the Wrights logo at the front (instead of a blank panel with the 36 logo painted on), a Volvo badge, and a straight upper deck grabrail in front of the windscreen, as opposed to a curved one. This extra vehicle has been required due to a frequency increase for the 36 to make up for each bus losing just over a dozen seats to improve passenger comfort.
The church San Sebastian de La Rochette replaced in the 1180s building a robust eleventh century. His plan is simple: a single nave, transept crossing a fake and a semicircular apse.
The facade has a central portal to three naked arches and two side arches each containing a small carved tympanum. North tympanum (left has a equestrian figure stomping a little character. Latter holds a scholarship. So it can be a representation of the victory of virtue over greed, vice. Unless not necessary to see here a figure of Constantine, the first Christian emperor, symbolizing the triumph of the church over paganism.
To the south, presented under the guise of a bearded man squatting edge at full speed vice symbolized by a character riding a fantastic animal.
Some interpretations have this man as Samson the lion.
Above the portal, consoles indicate the past presence of a built in 1632 to enlarge the church and now defunct porch. A series of ornate corbels and confined by two columns window occupy the upper part of the facade.
Capitals in replacement were placed high up the corners of the front and side walls. These are punctuated by massive buttresses. Animals, plants and various characters adorn the corbels supporting the ledge to the north and south.
The apse is supported by two flat and shows no ornamentation foothills. A bell tower overcomes the false transept crossing. Its floor is drilled in 1905 recovered five openings: two kinds of loopholes in the west and a rectangular bay on each other faces.
Coverage of the building, recently restored (1980), consists of limestone slate.
Inside, the nave is covered with a broken and divided into three bays by arches falling on half-columns with carved cradle. Three bays are drilled north and south. Those in the north had been walled up in the early sixteenth century.
The full cradle vaulted arch above the apse false square topped by a cul-de-four and lit by an opening window in the south.
We also find this side of a swimming pool and two niches of cabinets.
The interior of San Sebastian offers fine examples of Romanesque sculpture. In addition to the palms and animal heads, we see, at the entrance of false square, a lion, one of the hind legs is devoured by a head. Its tail ends itself in the form of head. Cinch corner and scrolls adorn the capitals framing the entrance to the sanctuary.
The capitals of the nave have, among other characters grappling with ducks, lions devouring the arms of a man or an unfortunate armed with a spear and defending against a monster that already eats up a knee.
As the eardrums of the facade, most of these storied capitals involved a pervasive iconography in the decor of our medieval churches intended to illustrate the ongoing struggle between good and evil.
Work on replacing the street bridge over Broadway in Kingston NY opened in 1952 next to the CSX bridge from the same time and repairing the concrete abutments instead of replacing them the old bridge was removed last week this whole job should take about a year they say.
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Balhannah - oldest town in the Onkaparinga River Valley.
In 1839 the Mt Barker Special Survey of 4,000 acres for William Hampden Dutton, Duncan McFarlane and John Finniss was conducted. Early land purchasers included Osmond Gilles the SA Treasurer who bought 240 acres from Dutton, McFarlane and Finniss. Another purchaser of part of Dutton’s land near the Onkaparinga River was made by a Scot called James Thomas. He soon laid out a small town in early 1840 which he named Balhannah after his sister Hannah and his mother Belle. He opened a small inn or pub on his land for thirsty travellers in 1840. Thomas was lucky for in 1841 the Great Eastern Road Act approved the surveying of a road from Crafers via Balhannah and Nairne to Wellington on the Murray and eventually on to the colony of Victoria. The first settlers grew maize, potatoes and wheat and they kept horses, pigs and cows. Despite the new road to Adelaide via Grunthal the town only started to develop in 1850 with the first Post Office opening with Whitfield as Post Master and the Gold Cross Hotel with W Anderson as proprietor. The Gold Cross Hotel is now the Balhannah Hotel. A year later in 1851 George Fenwick opened the first private school. The partially government funded school opened in 1857 after deputations from the town led by Francis Duffield of Shady Grove. It was a fine structure in gothic style and still stands opposite the Anglican Church on the main road. It cost £325 and has been a private residence for many years. The new state school was built half way to Oakbank in 1938 when this Balhannah School finally closed. Several of the early head teachers were members of the Monks family of Shady Grove. In 1855 a new road between Balhannah and Adelaide by via Greenhill Road was proposed but not completed until the late 1860s. A small copper mine operated in the hills near Balhannah at Bonney Flat between 1866 and 1876 but no great returns were ever obtained. The first St Thomas’ Anglican Church was built 1848 being replaced by the current church in 1865.The nearby Parish Hall was erected in 1906 and the rectory adjacent in 1928. The church area is bounded by Glebe Road. Between 1846-51 the SA government gave land grants to the churches. The Anglican Church at Balhannah obtained one such grant in 1851. The first Methodist Church in Balhannah was built in 1931 on land donated by William Johncock who is buried in the Anglican Church cemetery! The church is a fine stone building with the foundation stone being laid by Reverend Dunn.
Fruit trees grew well in the valley here and in 1908 Wicks Nurseries were established to provide peaches, apricots, plums and almonds for commercial growers. They still operate. From 1890 to 1914 a jam factory called the Glengyle Jam Factory, owned by Joseph Grasby, operated in the town. Then in 1919 a Cold Stores was formed to manage the export of apples to England and Messrs Wicks and Filsell pushed for this to occur. A saw mill operated to make packing cases for the apples between 1904 and 1923 and in 1894, once butter could be refrigerated for export to England, a butter factory was opened. It closed in 1929. Potatoes remain as a major crop of the district but fruit cropping has almost disappeared. This small town was excited when the railway arrived in 1883 as it pushed eastwards towards Edward’s Crossing (Murray Bridge) and eventually Melbourne by 1887. Later in 1918 a small branch line was opened to Mt Pleasant partly to provide transport for race goers to the famous Easter Steeplechase meeting at Oakbank. The Balhannah Institute was built in 1920 as a World War One Memorial. Note the name of the man who opened the hall, Mr Joseph Grasby, one of the pioneer families of Balhannah and Bonney Flat.
Built in 1970-1974, this Modern International-style skyscraper was designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Fazlur Rahman Khan for Sears, Roebuck and Company, replacing their earlier headquarters in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood where the company had been since 1905. The Sears, Roebuck and Company headquarters remained in the building until 1994, when they moved to a new suburban office park in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. The Sears Tower stands 108 stories and 1,451 feet (442 meters) tall, becoming the tallest building in Chicago in 1972, surpassing the Aon Center, which had held the title for only a month, and surpassing the height of the Empire State Building in New York City in early 1973. The building surpassed the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City when it topped out on May 3, 1973, and was the world’s tallest building from 1973 until 1998, when the spires of the Petronas Towers were completed in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The building, however, did not hold the title of the world’s tallest structure, being surpassed by several communication towers, and did not hold the designation as the tallest structure in North America, as the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada stood 350 feet taller, but as the CN Tower does not have habitable floors for much of its height, it is not defined as a building. The building also did not hold the designation of having the world’s tallest pinnacle height until 2000, with the 1,500-foot antennas atop the older John Hancock Building to the northeast being taller than the building upon its completion, and the 1,727-foot high antenna atop One World Trade Center holding the designation for decades. The land for the building was acquired by Sears in 1970, and involved the closure of one block of Quincy Street, as well as the acquisition and demolition of two blocks full of buildings. The construction process was fraught with difficulties as bad weather and labor strikes delayed the project, with five workers dying during construction. The building also faced controversy over the tower blocking television signals being broadcast from other towers in the Chicago Loop, which was the subject of lawsuits during construction that ultimately led to the building receiving broadcast antennas atop the roof, resulting in its eventual distinctive silhouette and height of 1,729 feet from the ground to the top of the western antenna after it was extended in 2000. The building was also the first structure in the Chicago Loop to feature blinking FAA beacons to warn air traffic atop the roof, due to its height. The building was not fully leased for over a decade due to its immense size and a massive wave of office construction around the time it was built, leading to a 50% vacancy rate during the 1970s and much of the 1980s.
The building was designed as a clustered series of nine 75-foot square tubes of varying heights within the structural grid of the building’s 225-foot square footprint, with the full site being occupied by the building on the lower floors, gradually tapering as various tubes terminate on the upper floors, eventually leaving only two tubes at the top that rise from the base of the site. Two tubes, at the southeast and northwest corners, rise 50 floors, with the tubes at the southwest and northeast corners rising 66 floors, the tubes in the middle of the south, north, and east sides of the building rising 90 floors, and the central tube and the tube in the middle of the west side of the building rising the full 108 floors of the building’s overall height. This system of construction and method of design was highly economical, and has been repeated by subsequent supertall skyscrapers, including the Burj Khalifa. The exterior of the building is clad in anodized aluminum, which has been painted black, with columns evenly spaced 15 feet apart on the exterior, with bronze-tinted ribbon windows, and bands of louvers at the mechanical floors. The building was renovated in 1984, with a shopping center being added to the first four floors of the building, and a visitor center was added for the building’s skydeck observation deck. The building has two lobbies, one on the north side of the building, utilized by office tenants, and one on the south side of the building, utilized for visitors, with the entrances being located on the first floor and ground floor of the building, respectively, due to the grade change and sloping of the site from north to south. The lobbies contain artworks by Jacob Hashimoto and Olafur Eliasson, a sculpture honoring Fazlur Rahman Khan, and from 1974 until 2017, the building’s lobby housed a notable sculpture by Alexander Calder, which was removed during the building’s renovations. The 103rd floor of the building houses the skydeck observation deck, which features several boxes made entirely of glass that extend outside of the building’s exterior walls and allow visitors a 180-degree viewing experience of the city outside, outwards, above, and below their feet, with the glass floors of the boxes allowing visitors to see the streets below.
The building today is the third-tallest in the western hemisphere, being surpassed by the new One World Trade Center in 2014 and Central Park Tower in 2020, both in New York City, and the twenty-third tallest building in the world, with the list now being dominated by towers in Asia. However, despite its reduced status on the world stage, the building remains the tallest in Chicago. In 2009, the building’s naming rights were sold to Willis Group, which renamed the building the Willis Tower, with Sears having sold the tower in 1994 and the naming rights in 2003. The tower’s original namesake, a far cry from the robust and successful company it was a half-century ago, is now bankrupt and on the verge of going defunct. In 2017-2022, the building underwent a substantial renovation that involved the addition of a three-story podium, which wraps the base of the tower, and replacing building's original plaza and entrances. The new podium contains a food hall, two lobbies, and an atrium with a glass roof, with the exterior matching the appearance of the original building, with the exception of a dynamic sculptural facade on the exterior of the previously existing mechanical ventilation shaft along Jackson Boulevard. The building houses multiple office tenants with retail space in the base, and attracts many visitors annually who mostly visit to ascend to the skydeck and view the city from the building’s impressive height.
Panther is the common name of a medium tank deployed by Nazi Germany in World War II from mid-1943 to the end of the European war in 1945. It was intended as a counter to the Russian T-34, and as a replacement for the Panzer III and Panzer IV. While never replacing the latter, it served alongside it and the heavier Tiger tanks until the end of the war. The Panther's excellent combination of firepower, mobility, and protection served as a benchmark for other nations' late war and post-war tank designs, and it is regarded as one of the best tanks of World War II.
Until 1944, it was designated as the Panzerkampfwagen V Panther and had the ordnance inventory designation of Sd.Kfz. 171. On 27 February 1944, Hitler ordered that the Roman numeral V be deleted from the designation.
The Panther tank was a compromise of various requirements. While having essentially the same engine as the Tiger I tank, it had better frontal armor (including the benefit of a sloped armor, increasing effective armor depth), better gun penetration, was lighter and thus faster, and could traverse rough terrain better than the Tigers. The tradeoff was weaker side armor. The Panther proved to be deadly in open country and long range engagements, but vulnerable in close-quarters combat. Also, the 75 mm gun fired a slightly smaller shell than the Tiger's 88 mm gun, providing less high explosive firepower against infantry.
The Panther was also far cheaper to produce than the Tiger tanks, and only slightly more expensive than the Panzer IV, as its design came to fruition when the Reich Ministry of Armament and War Production was making great efforts to increase war production. Key elements of the Panther design, such as its armor, transmission, and final drive, were compromises made specifically to improve production rates and address Germany's war shortages, whereas other elements such as its highly compact engine and its complex suspension system remained with their elegant but complicated engineering. The result was that Panther tank production was far higher than what was possible for the Tiger tanks, but not much higher than what had been accomplished with the Panzer IV. At the same time, the simplified final drive became the single major cause of breakdowns of the Panther tank, and was a problem that was never corrected.
The Panther tank arrived in 1943 at a crucial phase in World War II for Germany. Rushed into combat at the Battle of Kursk with un-corrected teething problems, which resulted in breakdowns and other equipment failures, the Panther tank would thereafter only be fighting outnumbered in Germany's steady retreat against the Allies for the remainder of World War II. Its success as a battlefield weapon was thus hampered by Germany's generally declining position in the war, with the loss of airpower protection by the Luftwaffe, the loss of fuel and training space, and the declining quality of tank crews. Nevertheless, the Panther tank commanded respect from the Allies, and its combat capabilities led directly to the introduction of heavier Allied tanks such as the Soviet IS-2 and the American M26 Pershing into the war.
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U.S. Army photos by Cpl. Han, Jae-ho
Camp Humphreys welcomes new commander
By Cpl. Han, Jae-ho
USAG Humphreys Public Affairs
CAMP HUMPHREYS – Soldiers, civilians and Family members welcomed the United States Army Garrison Humphreys' new commander, Col. Darin S. Conkright, during a ceremony, here, July 11.
Conkright replaces Col. Joseph P. Moore, who is retiring from the United States Army after 27 years of distinguished service.
Before the change of command, in a separate ceremony, Moore was presented with the Legion of Merit by Debra D. Zedalis, the Pacific Region director of Installation Management Command. His wife, Molly, received three awards: the 8th United States Army Helping Hands Award; the Dr. Mary E. Walker Award; and the Commander’s Award for Public Service.
During the ceremony, Moore expressed his appreciation to his family, fellow Soldiers, the community, Korean guests and the United States Army.
“To our guests from nearby towns, our Korean military colleagues, and our Korean employees, I extend special thanks for the friendship and hospitality you have extended to me over the past four years,” he said. “I leave my command and my Army career with a deep gratitude for the opportunities they have provided.”
Zedalis congratulated Moore on his success as the garrison commander.
“Under his leadership, Humphreys has transformed from an installation populated primarily by single and unaccompanied Soldiers, on one-year assignments, to an installation where many more military Families live for two and three-year tours,” Zedalis said. “He also has led the single largest construction program in the Department of Defense, and the garrison’s support of the 8th United States Army and all tenant units has been nothing short of top notch.”
Zedalis also extended a welcome to the incoming commander and his Family.
“You are inheriting a great garrison team that will support you one hundred percent,” she said. “I know you will find your new assignment both professionally rewarding and personally enriching.”
Conkright expressed his enthusiasm as a new commander.
“I look forward to working with each and every one of you to ensure Camp Humphreys continues to be a great place to live, work and serve,” he said.
Conkright joined the Army in 1989, and has had a number of duty assignments at Fort Bragg, Fort Campbell, Washington DC, and in Europe. At Fort Campbell, he commanded ODA 522 and served as the Battalion Assistant S-3. In Washington DC, he served as an assignments officer in the US Army PERSCOM’s Special Management Division. His most recent assignment was the Chief of Staff for the NATO Special Operations Headquarters (NSHQ) in Mons, Belgium.
He received a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps commission and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky. His advanced education includes a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters in Healthcare Management. Conkright is a graduate of the Army Command and General Staff College and his awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Bronze Star, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal. His badges include the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Special Forces Tab, the Ranger Tab, and the Master Parachutist Badge.
This wash was replaced by a WashTec Combiwash in June 2021.
Video of the new machine: youtu.be/FTui7kcXPxk
An ordinary WashTec Softcare Pro. Side view.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqTbtvat9jU
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Replacing the old Gallowgate coach station, a more bijou affair in Newcastle. With NatEx cashing in on Liverpool and a need to keep costs down, will this last much longer?
Replacing an earlier scanned prine with a better version 17-Mar-16
First flown with the German temporary registration D-AVYP, the aircraft was delivered to Alitalia as I-BIMB in Sep-03. In Nov-10 it was sold to a leasing company and re-registered EI-IMB during an overnight stop at London-Heathow (LHR). It's still in service (as of Mar-16).
Many leased aircraft in Italy are registered in Ireland or the Caribbean because Italian law makes it very difficult for leasing companies to repossess Italian registered aircraft when airlines cease operations or fail to keep up the lease payments.
Adapted from wholenewmom.com/recipes/energ-egg-substitute-egg-replacer..., this is a cheap, accessible and easy to make version of the Ener-G Egg Replacer Powder. Gluten, corn, soy and dairy free!
Replaced the sky of the original Dalden Tower image with a moon. I added some effects to create a spooky atmosphere.
Dalden Tower is found in Dalton-le-Dale near Seaham in County Durham.
It was built at least as early as 1375, when it passed from the hands of the Escolland family to the Bowes family. Prior to the switch, the Escollands had changed their name to Dalden, hence the name of the structure.
For two centuries it remained a popular and well-used residence for the Bowes family, subsequently passing through the hands of the Collingwoods, Millbankes and Londonderrys, but it has been derelict since at least the early 1700s.
Info obtained from:
northeasthistorytour.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/dalden-tower-...
Replaced all the old vacuum lines with new 4mm silicone hoses.
Result, tighter boost and little bit faster on the pedal.
Also highly recommended DIY job!
Based on a standard Polaroid 230 Automatic Land Camera, this camera has been extensively modified to be able to shoot at professional standards.
The original f8.8 lens and automatic shutter have been replaced with a Tominon 127mm, f4.7, four element coated glass lens, mounted in a Copal Polaroid Press shutter. This shutter does not require cocking before firing the shutter, meaning you can fire the shutter as fast as your fingers can move! This mechanical shutter also means that the camera no longer requires batteries!
This new lens allows for fantastic portrait photos, and is really the area where the camera excels. The new 127mm lens is amazingly sharp, and will deliver results on par with a Polaroid 180 or 195.
For added luxury, I have re-skinned the front shutter housing in genuine wood, which looks and feels fantastic!
The original shutter housing has been completely sealed to house the new shutter, using high density seals and tubing for a completely light-tight finish.
Features:
- Tominon 127mm f4.7, coated glass lens
- Copal Polaroid Press Shutter, featuring bulb and time modes
- Aperture range from f4.7 all the way to f45!
- Zeiss Ikon single window rangefinder/viewfinder
- Folding bellows design
- X-sync for flash, with ability to use old flash bulbs when set to 1/30th of a second or lower
- Cable release socket
- Genuine wood front panel
- Fully sealed and flocked interior, with new light seals
Because the rangefinder is calibrated to 114mm, and the new lens is 127mm, there was some drift between lens and finder. To compensate for this, the bellows arm has been re-shaped, to allow precise focus at the closest distance setting when using the rangefinder. When horizon photos are desired, it's simply a matter of extending the bellows to the infinity position, allowing for tack sharp pictures, even with the lens wide open. Now only the middle distances drifting slightly at the widest aperture settings. When shooting at f8 or higher, the drift is not an issue.
Named after Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, Paddle Steamer PS Waverley was built on the Clyde in 1947 - to replace the original Waverley that sunk off Dunkirk during active war service in 1940.
Waverley’s keel was laid on December 27, 1945 but due to material shortages after the war, she was not ready for launch until October 2, 1946.
It wasn’t until the following year on January 20, 1947 that she was towed to Greenock for the installation of her boiler and engines. Finally she made her maiden voyage on June 16, 1947 and started what was to become a very long career.
Since 2003 Waverley has been listed in the National Historic Fleet by National Historic Ships UK as "a vessel of pre-eminent national importance". She appeared in the 2011 film 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows'. She is claimed to be "the most photographed ship in the world."
Waverley has had several colour schemes in her life. Early photographs show paddle boxes painted sometimes white and sometimes black. The gold stripe along the hull is in some photos and not others. Today Waverley has the LNER 1947 livery of red, white and black funnels, traditional brown-grained (or "scumbled") superstructure and black paddle-wheel boxes, decorated with gold lettering on each side.
Waverley was originally intended to sail only between Craigendoran & Arrochar in West Scotland. She now sails right round Britain offering regular trips on the Clyde, the Thames, South Coast of England and the Bristol Channel with calls at Liverpool & Llandudno.
Waverley is the world’s last sea-going paddle steamer. In 1975, at the end of her working life, she was famously bought for £1 by the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society. Waverley Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, a charity registered in Scotland, was set up.
Tonnage:693 grt;
Length:239 ft 11 in (73.13 m);
Beam: 57 ft 3 in (17.45 m);
Draught:6 ft 3 in (1.91 m).
Installed power:2,100 ihp (1,566kW)
Waverley is powered by a three-crank diagonal triple-expansion marine steam engine built by Rankin & Blackmore, Engineers, Eagle Foundry, Greenock, Scotland. It is rated at 2,100 IHP and achieved a trial speed of 18.37 knots (34.02 km/h; 21.14 mph) at 57.8 rpm. Passengers can watch these engines from passageways on either side of the engine room.
The main crank is solidly attached to both paddle wheels so they cannot turn independently of each other. The Waverley therefore has a much larger turning circle than modern ferries.
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Walk the walls see some great historic buildings and parts of the city sometimes missed it takes about one and half hours may 2009
History
The first walls were wood and earth palisades built to defend the Roman fort in AD 79, although these were replaced by stronger stone walls between the 1st and 3rd century. The walls enclosed a far smaller area than the modern walls, with the south-western corner much further from the River Dee. With the Roman departure from Britain the walls fell into disrepair until 907, when Queen Æthelflæd ordered the fortification of the city in response to the Viking settlement of the nearby Wirral Peninsula.
Following the construction of Chester Castle in 1070, the walls were extended south-west towards the river, with a short spur off the north-west corner to defend the Roodee, at the time a valuable shipping port.
During the English Civil War, Chester was a Royalist stronghold and was heavily besieged. Charles I of England intended to break the siege with a concentrated attack, allowing Irish allies access to the port. However, Charles I watched from the Phoenix Tower (King Charles' Tower),part of the city walls, as his forces were defeated in the Battle of Rowton Heath. Charles I fled and the city was completely circumvallated and contravallated by the Parliamentarians.
The siege engines and cannons used by the Parliamentarians caused great damage to the walls, with many sections completely breached. As a result the wall was almost impassable, so the walls were much repaired and renovated during the Georgian era. The walls became a popular promenade, with many of the towers and gatehouses removed or adapted to allow free movement along the entire circuit of the walls. The Victorians further adapted the walls, with the original medieval gates being removed and replaced with wider ornamental gates. The famous Eastgate Clock was added in 1899, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
The most recent change to the walls was made in 1966, when the St. Martin's Gate was built to allow the A5268, or Chester ring road, to pass through the city. The gate is a brutalist-modernist concrete footbridge between the Northgate and the Water Tower.
The walls form an almost complete circuit 2 miles (3 km) long; the only breaks being for the entrance to the car park of the Cheshire County Council headquarters and the approach road to the Grosvenor Bridge. The walls are both a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument Despite this protection, the local Conservatives have raised concerns about the state of the walls, claiming that damage due to vandalism and erosion of the walls is unsightly and poses a danger. However, Chester City Council, who are responsible for maintenance of the walls, have rebuked the claims, stating that the walls are kept safe, and that the sandstone used to build the wall is especially prone to weathering. Following the collapse of a section of the wall on 3 April 2008, a 30-metre section of the wall near the Grosvenor Hotel has been closed to the public while repairs are planned.
A famous archaic bye-law of Chester states that any Welshman loitering within the city walls after sunset may be killed by decapitation or shot with a longbow. The law was originally imposed by King Henry V following the Welsh Revolt. This order was never repealed, and still officially stands on the statute to this day, although it no longer provides protection against prosecution for murder.