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VDOT is replacing 11 bridges on I-95 in metro Richmond
This four year project covers a seven-mile stretch of I-95 between Lombardy Street in Richmond and Upham Brook in Henrico County.This is North Lombardy Street.
(Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
The ballast went out on my aquarium light, so I replaced it with an 20+ year old magnet ballast I had lying around. Quality vintage Lampi ballast.
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better version 28-Dec-24.
'Gilgit - The Silk Route' tail livery.
This aircraft was delivered to PIA Pakistan International Airlines as AP-BID in Mar-08. It was repainted into standard livery Apr-10.
It was withdrawn from service in Feb-20 and stored at Karachi, Pakistan, presumably due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. However, it hasn't returned to service. Stored, updated 28-Dec-24.
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 27-Dec-15.
In service with Southwest Airlines at Houston-Hobby (HOU) for two years between Feb-81/Apr-83, OO-TEM was leased from/operated by TEA Trans European Airways.
Leased from ILFC International Lease Finance Corporation, this aircraft was delivered to TEA Trans European Airways in Jun-79 as OO-TEM. It was sub-leased to Southwest Airlines in Feb-81, returning to TEA in Apr-83. It was returned to ILFC in Oct-81 and leased to America West Airlines later the same month as N133AW. It was bought by America West in Dec-87 and sold the same day to GPA Group Ltd (later to become GECAS), re-registered EI-BTR and leased back to America West. It was returned to GPA Group in Mar-88 and leased to BMA British Midland Airways 2 months later, in May-88 for the summer season, returning to GPA Group in Oct-88. It was transferred to Emerald Aviation Investments Ltd the same month, re-registered HA-LEA and leased to MALEV Hungarian Airlines for the winter. The aircraft returned to Emerald Investments in Mar-99 and was sold to AeroUSA Inc as N121NJ. It was leased to Vanguard Airlines in Apr-99. It was returned to AeroUSA in Mar-02 and stored at Goodyear, AZ, USA. In Jun-04 it was sold to the Alameda Corporation and made the short hop over to Tucson where it was stored again. It was permanently retired at Tucson and broken up there in 2005.
In the Portland Station Collection's documentation, this image is classified as Class 4B or Class 3B. It's also documented this way in the Bureau of Entomology Collection's documentation, but then those are crossed out and replaced with a Class 3C Keen Ponderosa Pine Tree Classification.
Photo by: F.P. Keen
Date: September 1934
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Collection: Bureau of Entomology and Portland Station Collections; La Grande, Oregon.
Image: PS-232 and BUR-8736
To learn more about this photo collection see:
Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss, M.M. 2002. Photographic images and history of forest insect investigations on the Pacific Slope, 1903-1953. Part 2. Oregon and Washington. American Entomologist, 48(3), p. 178-185.
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
The following information about the Keen Classification system is excerpted from Wickman, Boyd E. 2005. Harry E. Burke and John M. Miller, pioneers in Western forest entomology. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-638. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 163 p.:
"Keen’s research on tree classification continued in Oregon and was called the “Keen Ponderosa Pine Tree Classification.” The Salman-Bongberg approach was called the “California Pine Risk-Rating System.” Both systems evolved from research on tree susceptibility to bark beetle attack that had been conducted in the 1920s by Miller, Keen, Patterson, Person, and Struble. Tree growth rates were a particularly important area of the studies, with Miller and Person proposing that slower growing mature ponderosa pine were more susceptible to attack by the western pine beetle than younger more vigorous trees (Smith et al. 1981).
The rating systems resulted in a silvicultural approach to managing the western pine beetle instead of the direct control method of felling infested trees, then peeling and burning the bark. This was a breakthrough for forest managers that allowed them to capture the economic value of susceptible trees before they were killed by bark beetles, and at the same time resulted in decreased beetle populations or at least seemed to prevent outbreaks. The Salman- Bongberg California risk-rating system identified susceptible trees by assigning penalty points to crown and stem characteristics of a tree. This was followed up by a logging practice called sanitation salvage (Smith et al. 1981). The Keen system, involved four classes based on age and four vigor classes within each age class. It was oriented more toward identifying the susceptibility of individual trees to insect attack. Keen also assigned penalty points in his system. It was slightly more complex to use and was not directly tied to the sanitation salvage concept, but a certain level of logging of susceptible trees was generally followed. Keen’s classification was more widely used in ponderosa pine stands of eastern Oregon, and the California system was used for both ponderosa pine and Jeffrey pine stands in eastern California."
For more, see: www.fs.fed.us/pnw/publications/pnw_gtr638/
For more about Keen's classifications see: www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/ecology_of.../psw_1943_kee...
Sixteen BLM Wyoming Rock Springs Field Office staff worked hand-in-hand with 11 volunteers to replace almost a quarter-mile of net wire fencing with wildlife friendly buck-and-rail fencing during a National Public Lands Day event at the historic 40-acre Crookston Ranch.
The ranch is located in the Greater Sand Dunes Area of Critical Environmental Concern near the Killpecker Sand Dunes Open Play Area northeast of Rock Springs, Wyo. and eligible for the National Register of Historic Places as a representative example of Wyoming Basin homesteading era architecture. The BLM plans to preserve the historic nature of the ranch and provide interpretation on ranching history in the area.
Pumps and a flexible hose system keep the water flowing between the creek and pond and out of the estimated 1.5 million dollar project thst will replace an existing concrete notched weir fishway for herring, reinforcing the dam and improve the fish ladder at historic Baxter Grist Mill at Mill Pond on the Mills Creek, in West Yarmouth, MA on October 19, 2019.
An approximate $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources and Conservation Service (NRCS) and a majority share from the Community Preservation Act has paid for the project.
The efforts will benefit six habitats. One of the habitats is the Mill Pond, which is the seasonal home of swan pairs. Water levels and construction activities have successfully been underway without disrupting the swans.
The construction will better stabilize the mill, a local tourist attraction. The new spillway will provide better flow through the grist mill. The dam’s earthen embankments will be made more stable with riprap rock and thick sheeting.
Since 1710, the Baxter Mill has been at this location. The dam suffered failures about 60 years ago, with subsequent rebuilds. Local funding will provide the restoration of the mill, which has been inoperative for 40 years.
NRCS has a proud history of supporting America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.
As the USDA’s primary private lands conservation agency, we generate, manage, and share the data, technology, and standards that enable partners and policymakers to make decisions informed by objective, reliable science.
And through one-on-one, personalized advice, we work voluntarily with producers and communities to find the best solutions to meet their unique conservation and business goals. By doing so, we help ensure the health of our natural resources and the long-term sustainability of American agriculture.
Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Department’s focal point for the nation’s farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs, and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.
The agencies and services supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
NRCS – NRCS - nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
FPAC - Farm Production and Conservation - usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas
USDA - USDA.gov
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Crews are busy replacing the South Yamhill River Bridge located on the OR 18 spur section at milepost 46.66.
A busy route into and out of McMinnville with a daily average daily traffic volume of 16,000 vehicles, the new bridge will replace the existing 35 foot wide bridge with a wider 48 foot wide bridge. This will better accommodate large trucks, bicycles and pedestrians.
It cost $175 bucks to have a mobile auto glass guy come over to replace my drivers side window yesterday afternoon.. Blegh.
Some remnant sections of the old Pine Island and Tharwa Roads in Calwell photographed 28/01/2014.
Tharwa Road was the main connection between Lanyon Homestead and Tharwa Village from the late 1800's until the late 1980's when sections were resurfaced or replaced during the construction of Calwell and Gordon. This section is now part of a cycle path between Calwell and Gordon.
The section of Pine Island Road appears to have been constructed in the mid 20th century as it does not appear on c1940's maps. The earliest map held by ArchivesACT showing this section of road dates to c1970.
The kit and its assembly:
The fictional Gloster Glaive started quite simple with the idea of replacing the Gladiator’s radial with an inline engine. But this soon did not appear enough for an update – the Peregrine hardly delivered much more power than the former Mercury, so I considered some structural updates, too. Most of them comprised the replacement of former fabric-covered structures, and this led conceptually to a kitbash with only some Gladiator fuselage and tail parts left.
The basis is (once more) the very nice Matchbox Gloster Gladiator, but it was heavily modified. As an initial step, fuselage, fin and stabilizers (all OOB parts) lost their rib-and-fabric structure, simply sanded away. A minor detail, but it changes the overall look of the aircraft a lot, making it appear much more modern.
The fuselage was left without the OOB radial, and instead a leftover Merlin front end from an Airfix Hurricane (ca. 1cm long, left over from one of my first whif builds ever, a Hurricane with a radial engine!) was added. The lines match pretty well: the side profile looks sleek, if not elegant, but the Gladiator fuselage turned out to be wider than expected. Some major body work/PSR was necessary to integrate the new nose, but the result looks very good.
The liquid-cooled engine necessitated a radiator somewhere on the airframe…! Since I wanted the nose to remain slim and streamlined I eventually placed the radiator bath under the fuselage, much like the arrangement of the Hawker Fury biplane. The radiator itself comes from a late Spitfire (FROG kit).
The exhaust was taken from the Hurricane kit, too, and matching slits dug into the putty nose to take them. The three blade propeller is a mash-up, too: the spinner belongs, IIRC, to an early Spitfire (left over from an AZ Models kit) while the blades came from a damaged Matchbox Brewster Buffalo.
The Gladiator’s fuselage flank machine guns were kept and their “bullet channels” extrapolated along the new cowling, running under the new exhaust pipes. Another pair of machine guns were placed on top of the engine – for these, openings were carved into the upper hull and small fairings (similar to the Browning guns in the flanks) added. This arrangement appeared plausible to me, since the Gladiator’s oil cooler was not necessary anymore and the new lower wings (see below) were not big enough anymore to take the Gladiator’s underwing guns. Four MGs in the fuselage appears massive – but there were other types with such an arrangement, e.g. the Avia B-534 with four guns in the flanks and an inline engine.
The wings are complete replacements: the upper wing comes from a Heller Curtiss SBC4, while the lower wings as well as the spats (on shortened OOB Gladiator struts) come from an ICM Polikarpov I-153. All struts were scratched. Once the lower wings were in place and the relative position of the upper wing clear, the outer struts were carved from 1mm styrene sheet, using the I-153 design as benchmark. These were glued to the lower wing first, and, once totally dry after 24h, the upper wing was simply glued onto the top and the wing position adjusted. This was left to dry another 24h, and as a final step the four struts above the cowling (using the OOB struts, but as single parts and trimmed for proper fit) were placed. This way, a stable connection is guaranteed – and the result is surprisingly sturdy.
Rigging was done with heated sprue material – my personal favorite for this delicate task, and executed before painting the kit started so that the glue could cure and bond well.
⚠️ Replaced in 2025
New Replacement - Istobal M'Wash3 Pro Takt
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Istobal M'Nex32 Takt in blue/yellow "Premium design" with blue and yellow carlite brushes, with the first unit being installed in 2020 and the 2nd polishing unit being installed in 2022 to make the "Takt" format
Video - youtu.be/GEB3LLrIAGM
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Belfast Road
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1957 Chevy - Van
Body Work/Fabrication: Shaved Body Lines, Replaced All Flat Sheet Metal, Reshaped Front And Rear Wheel Wells,Front And Rear Roll Pan,, One Off Billet Snow Flake Grille, Tribar Halogen Headlights, Billet Specialities Tail Lights And Front Turn Signals,1932 Ford Door Handles,Custom Service Doors For Snow Cone Vending
Engine/Transmission: 400 Horse GM Crate Engine, 700R4, 3000 Stall Converter
Suspension/Chassis: Stock Solid Axle Front Suspension Replaced With R&B Obsolete Front Chassis Clip That Accepts S-10 Front Suspension Components. BYC 1 1/4 Narrowed Tubular Control Arms, Drop Spindles, 2600 LB Bags With Custom Cups. Rear Suspension AirRide Technologies 4 Link On An S-10 Axle with 9000 series bags, One Off Front Wheel Tubs, Engine Cover And Floor, Rear Tubs Raised 9 Inches With Step Notch.
Paint: White With White And Blue Flames, Stenciled Pearl Snow Flakes
Interior: Two Tone Leather Bucket Seats *Completed By Southtowne Upolstery*, Custom Smoothed Dash With 1932 Ford Oval Dakota Digital Guage Cluster, Billet Specialities Leather Wrap Steering Wheel On Top Of An IDIDIT Tilt Column,Gennie Floor Shifter, rear Of Vehicle Equipped For Snow Cone Vending.
Wheels & Tires: Billet Specialities 2005 3D Series Rail, 22x10's All Around.
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Replaced the old worn rear shocks with fresh new shocks. The old ones were apparantly leaking.
Also replaced the bump stops and the rear top strut mounting cushion set.
Top Mounts: Magnum Technology A7V006MT
Shocks: Statim A.527
The Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, is the newest addition to the National Museums Liverpool group having opened in 2011 replacing the former Museum of Liverpool Life. National Museums Liverpool intention is for the new venue to tell the story of Liverpool and its people, and reflect the city’s global significance. The museum is housed in a new purpose-built building on the Mann Island site at the Pier Head.
The museum, designed by architects 3XN and engineers Buro Happold, was expected to cost £72 million and provide 8,000 square metres of exhibition space, housing more than 6,000 objects.There are also plans to have flexible spaces that regularly change to enable National Museums Liverpool to show more of their collections.
It was opened to the public on 19 June 2011. The museum will be closed for two months for essential works in January & February 2017.
A few weeks after replacing the gearbox it was noticed there was a slight leak at the hydraulic valve block. This houses the solenoids for the gearbox which select the required gear. The opportunity was taken to also test the condition of these when the cover was removed for re-sealing.
This is the same Song Thrush that I posted a few days ago and you can see that its tail is now growing in. It also had a few head feathers being replaced but everything else looks brand new. This is an adult bird - a young bird would have long pale "thorn" marks on some of the wing coverts
Lìjiāng (simplified Chinese: 丽江; traditional Chinese: 麗江) is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It has an area of 21,219 square kilometres and had a population of 1,244,769 at the 2010 census.
HISTORY
Lijiang City replaced the former administrative region of Lijiang Prefecture. It was under the rule of the Mu family (木氏) local commanders (土司) during the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.
The Baisha Old Town was the political, commercial and cultural center for the local Naxi people and other ethnic groups for 400 years from the year 658 AD to 1107 AD. The Dabaoji Palace of the Baisha Fresco, very close to the Baisha Naxi Hand-made Embroidery Institute, was built in the year 658 AD in the Tang Dynasty (618 AD to 960 AD).
In ancient times, the Baisha Old Town used to be the center of silk embroidery in the southwest of China and the most important place of the Ancient Southern Silk Road, also called the Ancient Tea and Horse Road or Ancient tea route. The Ancient Southern Silk Road started from Burma, crossed Lijiang, Shangri-La County, Tibet, journeyed through Iran, the Fertile Crescent, and ultimately to the Mediterranean Sea.
Naxi women were well known for their hand-made embroidery before 1972 during the Great Cultural Revolution. The most famous Naxi masters were arrested and put in jail, some of them died in jail during the Cultural Revolution because they did hand-made embroidery only for the Naxi Emperors when they were young.
GEOGRAPHY
Lijiang is located in the northwestern portion of Yunnan and borders Sichuan. It is in a region where the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau converge.
Owing to its low latitude and high elevation, the city centre of Lijiang experiences a mild subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb). Winters are mild and very dry and sunny (>70% possible sunshine), although average lows in December and January are just below the freezing mark; January, the coolest month, has a 24-hour average temperature of 6.0 °C. Spring begins early and remains dry and sunny until late May, when there is a dramatic uptick in frequency and amount of rainfall that lasts until late September. Summers are warm, rainy (more so than it is sunny) and damp, with June, the warmest month, averaging 18.4 °C. Autumn sees an abrupt reduction in rainfall and return to sunniness. The annual mean temperature is 12.70 °C, while precipitation averages 968 mm, around 80% of which occurs from June to September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 32% in July to 80% in December, the city receives 2,463 hours of bright sunshine annually.
OLD TOWN
The world famous Old Town of Lijiang is located in Lijiang City. It is a UNESCO Heritage Site.
The town has a history going back more than 800 years and was once a confluence for trade along the old tea horse road. The Lijiang old town is famous for its orderly system of waterways and bridges. The old town of Lijiang differs from other ancient Chinese cities in architecture, history and the culture of its traditional residents the Nakhi people, therefore people there are called 胖金哥 and 胖金妹 (pàng jīn gē, pàng jīn mèi, male and female respectively). The town was ruled by the Mu Family during the portions of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a period of nearly 500 years.
Overlooking Lijiang Old Town is Lion Hill and at its summit is the Wangu Pavilion, which is a wooden building that stands 33 m tall and boasts 10,000 dragon carvings. The pavilion is constructed on 16 columns each of 22 m in height. The pavilion is a masterpiece of Qing Dynasty architecture that has been extensively restored following the designation of Lijiang Old Town as a UNESCO Heritage Site.
From Lion's Hill it is possible to view the entire Li River valley, including both the old city and new city of Lijiang. Looking Northwest, the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain is dominates the horizon.
The Old Town is a maze of winding cobblestone streets. It is extremely easy to get lost as there is no grid, but each turn takes one to some new interesting spot, and it's not hard to eventually find one's way out of the maze and back to familiar territory. The layout of the town was established to conform to the flow of 3 streams in adherence to Feng Shui design, so there was water and waste disposal for the inhabitants. The Old Town has fast become a destination for young Chinese artists, students, and adventurers. Most recently, it has become a favored Spring Break destination for students. "Bar Street" is a line of clubs with live music, dancing, and revelry. The Old Town has a multitude of shops, some a bit tourist oriented, but several showcasing handcrafts, individual artists, and local manufacturers of interesting personal products.
There are dozens of restaurants, from snacks to high end dining, all very reasonably priced, cheap by Western standards.
Accommodations are varied, but the most interesting are the large number of boutique hotels run by individuals and families. These boutique hotels are in old traditional houses converted to rooms, courtyards, and gathering places, and designs all trend to traditional Chinese sensibilities. There are new high end hotel and condominium developments starting construction from 2011 forward, so there is a definite push to make the destination one for all tastes and not just young adventurers.
NEARBY
Some tens of miles north of Lijiang is the Baishui Terrace (白水台 Baishuitai, literally "White Water Terrace"), an area where spring water flows over a sinter terrace, leaving behind travertine. Lijiang is also close to the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (玉龙雪山).
A few miles north of Lijiang is the village of Baisha, famous for the Baisha Fresco and the Naxi Hand-made Embroidery Institute.The Fresco was built in the Ming Dynasty 600 years ago, the Naxi Hand-made Embroidery Institute was built 800 years ago, it is the headquarters of the Naxi embroideries and also, a school for the Naxi embroiderers. There are many Naxi embroidery masters, teachers, students and local farmers there. Their embroidery arts can be found there.
WIKIPEDIA
Newcastle Interchange has replaced the former Newcastle Railway Station as the terminus in the Hunter River city of the same name. After a protracted court battle in which locals who opposed the truncation of the lost to the NSW Government the interchange is now operational. In time Newcastle Light Rail will terminate here as well.
Intercity trains from Sydney as well as the Hunter suburban lines services both operate from the interchange.
Replaces the Second Cup on Queen W. The interior is chic, but I miss the slightly shabby one from before...
M6+35mm with Kodak ultramax 400
This bus is one of 20 2023 IC CE’s currently in the process of being added to the fleet. This bus replaced a 2003 IC CE 200
VDOT is replacing 11 bridges on I-95 in metro Richmond
This four year project covers a seven-mile stretch of I-95 between Lombardy Street in Richmond and Upham Brook in Henrico County.This is Sherwood Ave (forground) and Robin Hood Rd.(Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
Taken in Kew Gardens
Commissioned in 1982 to replace a group of 26 smaller buildings that were falling into disrepair. It was named after Princess Augusta, founder of Kew, and opened in 1987 by Diana, Princess of Wales. It is the most complex conservatory at Kew, containing ten computer-controlled climatic zones under one roof.
The two main climate zones are the ‘dry tropics’, representing the world’s warm, arid areas, and the ‘wet tropics’, housing moisture loving plants from ecosystems such as rainforests and mangrove swamps. The eight remaining microclimates include a seasonally dry zone containing desert and savanna plants, plus sections for carnivorous plants, ferns and orchids.
Whereas the Palm and Temperate Houses make grand statements with their designs, the low-lying, angular ‘glazed hill’ of the Princess of Wales house is less obtrusive. The conservatory was designed by architect Gordon Wilson to be energy-efficient and easy to maintain and was built partly underground.
The southern end is heated more by the sun than the northern end, so this is where visitors find towering spikes of echiums and silver agaves from dry tropical regions such as the arid Canary Islands. The central area contains an elevated aquaria, complete with waterlily pond and the dangling roots of mangroves, plus displays of orchids and carnivorous plants. At the northern end are species from the moist tropics, including banana, pineapple, pepper and ginger.
[Kew website]
Kew Gardens (formally knowkn as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) consists of 121 hectares of gardens and glasshouses.
The gardens began as exotic gardens belonging to Lord Capel John of Tewkesbury in the latter half of the c17th. The gardens were extended and enlarged by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales (and mother of the future George III) who employed William Chambers to design various buildings. George III had William Aiton (1731-93) and Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) as directors of the botanical garden. The gardens were formally established as a national botanical garden in 1840.
Craig Bellamy's final appearance in a Welsh jersey?
Gary Speed Memorial match, Wales 0-1 Costa Rica. Cardiff City Stadium, 29th February 2012, 7:45pm Kick Off. Attendance 23,193.
Wales team: Price, Gunter, Blake, Williams, Matthews, Robson-Kanu, Allen, Crofts, Vaughan, Bellamy, Morison.
Subs: Brown, Vokes, Taylor, Ricketts, Gabbidon, Ledley, Earnshaw, Collison.
Costa Rica: Navas, Umana, Salvatierra, Miller, Cunningham, Barrantes, Azofeifa, Wallace, Oviedo, Ruiz, Campbell.
Subs: Cambronero, Mora, Brenes, Diaz, Tejeda, Gabas, Cubero, McDonald.
Referee: Howard Webb
Replaced the plastic OEM skid plate with the beefy one from JNS Engineering. Just handling it, you know it is quality kit. In contrast, the stocker already had a crack in one of the mount point.
Now I don't need to fear driving off curbs any more. :-)
To replace the aging P-3 Orion (which first entered service in 1962), the US Navy has been looking for a replacement since the mid-1990s. It accepted and then rejected an upgraded Lockheed proposal, the P-7, and instead settled on Boeing's modified 737-800 airliner, the P-8A Poseidon. The P-8 is essentially a 737-800 airframe with the P-3's electronic suite, though it will be upgraded as time goes on. The first entered US Navy service in 2012.
India ordered a batch of P-8Is to replace their ancient Tupolev Tu-142 Bears, and these entered service in 2012 as well. I was able to get a shot of the fifth P-8I fitting out for delivery in May 2014, at the King County Airport facility. This aircraft now serves with INAS 312 Squadron.
Replaced the air filter. This is what a dirty airfilter looks like.
Change it on time, so your car keeps performing at peak efficiency!
Replacing three bridges in Henrico County and one in Hanover County over the Chickahominy River on Mechanicsville Turnpike. (Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
The main reason for having the table is to make it easy to use a netbook computer.
In April 2012 I made improvements::
1. The front table support was replaced by a leg assembly clamped to the floor where the two floor panels are sitting. That eliminated the need to install the support assembly when setting up the table)..
2. The table support at the other end was eliminated, replaced by an alteration to one of my plywood travel boxes.When the altered box is sitting atop another, it supports the table. That eliminated having to handle and store the support.
3. The stool was replaced by a smaller and lighter one, making it easier to handle..
4. The table was made five inches longer to create more working room.
These changes made the user happier.
All table photos (and background information) appear in a set of photos of the table.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 12-Aug-18.
This aircraft was delivered to SABENA Belgian World Airlines as OO-SDD in Jun-74. It was wet-leased to Spantax SA in May-87. It was re-registered EC-EEG in Jul-87 when the wet lease became a dry lease.
The aircraft was returned to SABENA as OO-SDD in Apr-88. It was leased to associate company Sobelair (Belgium) in May-91 and returned to SABENA in Oct-93.
After 26 years in service the aircraft was sold to European Aviation as G-BYRI in Sep-99. It was transferred to subsidiary company European Aviation Air Charter and re-registered G-CEAF in Jan-00.
In Jun-01 it was wet-leased to Air Europa (with Fly Europa titles) and returned to European Air Charter in Sep-01. It was sold to European Skybus Ltd (another 'European' company) in Feb-05 and leased back to European Air Charter.
The aircraft was leased to Palmair (a Bournemouth UK Travel Agency) in Apr-03 and returned when European Aviation Air Charter ceased operations in Nov-08. The aircraft was withdrawn from use and stored at Bournemouth, UK after 34 years in service.
It was broken up there in Jan-10. The forward fuselage was preserved at the DHL Flight Assembly Centre at London-Heathrow painted in full DHL livery.
VDOT is replacing 11 bridges on I-95 in metro Richmond
This four year project covers a seven-mile stretch of I-95 between Lombardy Street in Richmond and Upham Brook in Henrico County.This is Overbrook Rd.
(Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
Replacing an earlier digital photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 02-Jun-24.
Named: "Binghen am Rhein".
First flown with the Airbus test registration D-AZAG, this aircraft was delivered to Lufthansa as D-AISV in Sep-09. Current, updated 02-Jun-24.
A Norman chapel stands on the steep hillside above Chadlington. On a cold day in March the wind drives snow across the churchyard and rattles resilient patches of snowdrops. How many snows has this simple building seen, how many travellers have sought shelter from a howling storm, having climbed the steep hill from the River Evenlode below. Standing among the yew trees, on the bone-rich ground, the view from the churchyard is ancient, little altered by the passing years. At the end of a narrow lane All Saints has a few cottages for company, it is hard to tell whether these humble buildings are survivors of a larger village or have always stood isolated among the fields. It is easier to imagine the numberless generations of locals summoned here by bells to celebrate the passing ceremonies of Christian calendar.
The exterior of All Saints is austere, a simple two-cell Norman chapel extended to the south in the 15th century with a Georgian east window added during a major early restoration. The church consists of nave, chancel, an east belfry and 19th century south porch although outer and inner doors appear much earlier in date. Step inside and you are confronted by the Middle Ages in all it's symbolic complexity and the belief that the intervention of saints can influence our daily lives. A palimpsest, medieval saints overwritten with later biblical texts cover large areas of the nave walls, giving a faded impression of the elaborate decorative schemes that were common to all our pre-Reformation churches. A round-headed lancet survives in the north wall of the nave. The small 13th century chancel arch of two pointed chamfered orders is off-centre due to the nave being extended to the south. The south wall has two Perpendicular windows, a doorway and a piscina to the east, all of a similar date. A large squint to the south of the chancel arch connects nave and sanctuary. The west wall of the nave has a Tudor window and a blocked Georgian opening which may once have been one main doors of the church. An atmosphere of antiquity is emphasised by the 18th century pulpit, reading desk and box pews which tower over the east end of the nave. Opposite the door is a Norman tub font which has seen over 900 years of service. If you look through the Georgian east window of the chancel the tower of Spelsbury church can be seen in the distance, the chancel was rebuilt in the 18th century re-using a Decorated window in the south wall.
The real rarity of All Saints is the fortunate survival of several passages of medieval decoration preserved from destruction under a layer of whitewash. The earliest decoration surviving surrounds the 13th century round-headed north nave window, red lines mimic the pattern of stonework and small red floral motifs have been added to the window splay.
To the left of the blocked north door is a representation of St Frideswide, an 8th century princess who became a nun, choosing the church over a royal suitor, who was blinded when he attempted to force her into marriage. She became patron saint of Oxford and although her shrine was destroyed in the Reformation she is believed to be buried in Christ Church, Oxford.
To the right of the door is the figure of an archbishop, which might be St Edmund of Abingdon or a rare survival of an image of St Thomas a Becket, a particular target for iconoclasts due to his defiance of royal authority. The image shows the archbishop teaching a child to read.
To the west of the round-headed window is a fragmentary 14th century priest thought to be a depiction of St Leonard, patron saint of Eynsham Abbey, who owned the patronage of Shorthampton.
Over the chancel arch the remains of a Doom have been obscured by a Royal Coat of Arms. The Last Judgement, with the just ascending to heaven while sinners are thrown into the mouth of hell, is a common subject for the chancel arch, after the Reformation every church had to display the Royal Arms.
The squint was inserted in the 15th century to enable those in the widened southern portion of the nave to be able to witness the elevation of the host, during the celebration of the Mass. "The Legend of the Clay Birds" is depicted inside the squint, the Virgin Mary holds the Christ child and St John, although St.John might be holding a Goldfinch. The legend derives from the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of St Thomas which describes the Christ child making clay birds which he then brings to life.
To the right of this is "the Agony in the Garden" but there are two layers of paint which makes the imagery difficult to read.
The left reveal of the easterly south window of the nave has a small mid-15th century figure in an elaborate green dress. This is St Sitha, also known as Zita of Lucca, the patron saint of maids and domestic servants, often depicted holding a set of keys and said to help supplicants in finding items they have lost.
Between this window and the south door is a panel which shows St Loy or the "Legend of St Eligius", patron saint of blacksmiths and metalworkers, depicted shoeing a horse. A 7th century goldsmith famous for the building of churches.
Biblical texts replaced images of saints in the reign of Eward VI who ordered their destruction in 1548. The Creed appears on a large panel over the door and the west wall has a cartouche containing King Solomon's prayer. Also on the west wall is a disembodied wing probably the remains of "George and the Dragon" though possibly the Archangel Michael. There are also many small fragments of wall painting including foliate decoration round the chancel arch.
All in all a wonderful voyage through time. Shorthampton is a few miles from Chipping Norton about 40 minutes from Stratford-upon-Avon
The two staircase locks at Salterhebble and the single lock at Brooksmouth were replaced at John Smeaton's suggestion by three new locks in 1782 including this guillotine lock.
The Calder and Hebble Navigation, running for 21 miles from the Aire and Calder Navigation at Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge, was one of the first navigable waterways into the Pennines. It was an extension westwards of the Aire and Calder Navigation and was surveyed by John Smeaton and the later sections by James Brindley.
Work began in 1758 to make the River Calder navigable above Wakefield. The navigation to Sowerby Bridge was completed in 1770, including a short branch to Dewsbury. Sir John Ramsden's Canal, now known as the Huddersfield Broad, was opened in 1776, providing a branch to Huddersfield.
In 1804, the Rochdale Canal opened, branching off the Calder and Hebble just before its terminus in Sowerby Bridge, crossing the Pennines to link Yorkshire with Manchester.
This information from the Pennine Waters website.
The estimated 1.5 million dollar project will replace an existing concrete notched weir fishway for herring, reinforcing the dam and improve the fish ladder at historic Baxter Mill at Mill Pond on the Mills Creek, in West Yarmouth, MA on October 19, 2019.
An approximate $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources and Conservation Service (N?RCS) and a majority share from the Community Preservation Act has paid for the project.
The efforts will benefit six habitats. One of the habitats is the Mill Pond, which is the seasonal home of swan pairs. Water levels and construction activities have successfully been underway without disrupting the swans.
The construction will better stabilize the mill, a local tourist attraction. The new spillway will provide better flow through the grist mill. The dam’s earthen embankments will be made more stable with riprap rock and thick sheeting.
Since 1710, the Baxter Mill has been at this location. The dam suffered failures about 60 years ago, with subsequent rebuilds. Local funding will provide the restoration of the mill, which has been inoperative for 40 years.
NRCS has a proud history of supporting America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners. For more than 80 years, we have helped people make investments in their operations and local communities to keep working lands working, boost rural economies, increase the competitiveness of American agriculture, and improve the quality of our air, water, soil, and habitat.
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Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) is the Department’s focal point for the nation’s farmers and ranchers and other stewards of private agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands. FPAC agencies implement programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop insurance services, conservation programs, and technical assistance, and commodity, lending, and disaster programs.
The agencies and services supporting FPAC are Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), and Risk Management Agency (RMA).
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USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Replacing a photo from 17-Jun-14 with a better version 14-Sep16.
This aircraft was delivered to BCC Equipment Leasing Corp (Boeing) and leased to Midway Airlines as N924ME in Oct-05. It was returned to the lessor in Oct-08 and stored at Victorville, CA, USA. In May-09 the aircraft was leased to AeroCaribe as XA-CLD and operated as Mexicana Click. Mexicana ceased operations in Aug-10 and it was repossessed by the lessor and stored at Guadalajara, Mexico. It was re-registered N799BC in Jan-11 and ferried to Victorville for further storage. The aircraft was transferred to Boeing Capital Leasing in Jul-13 as EI-FCU and was leased to Volotea Airlines a few days later. Current (Dec-16).
The building was commissioned to replace Sheffield's first town hall, which had opened in 1700 to a design by William Renny. This first structure stood by the parish church, on a site with little prospect for extension.
The Old Town Hall was built in 1807–8 by Charles Watson, and was designed to house not only the Town Trustees but also the Petty and Quarter Sessions. The initial building was a five-bay structure fronting Castle Street, but it was extended in 1833 and again in 1866 by William Flockton (1804-1864) of Sheffield and his partner for the project, Abbott; the most prominent feature was the new central clock tower over a new main entrance that reoriented the building to Waingate. At the same time, the building's courtrooms were linked by underground passages to the neighbouring Sheffield Police Offices.
The first Town Council was elected in 1843 and took over the lease of the Town Trustees' hall in 1866. The following year, the building was extensively renovated, with a clock tower designed by Flockton & Abbott being added.
By the 1890s, the building had again become too small, and the current Sheffield Town Hall was built further south. The Old Town Hall was again extended in 1896-7, by the renamed Flockton, Gibbs & Flockton, and became Sheffield Crown Court and Sheffield High Court. In the 1990s, these courts moved to new premises, and since at least 1997 to present, the building remains disused. In 2007, it was named by the Victorian Society as one of their top ten buildings most at-risk
The jigsaw has been restored - a friend replaced the missing cogwheel piece and several tabs, in Autumn 2022.
Expert c400pc Vanity Fair, 1repl plus minor tab repairs, decorated continuous cut with cogwheels. Bought in Feb 2019.
I have seen Expert-cut brands of this image in 200pc, 300pc & 400pc piece counts - the Graphic Gallery, Warne Chandos & Boots Expert.
The painting is 'Vanity Fair' by John Young Hunter (1911). The model was the artist's first wife, Mary, also an artist, and it was painted in the grounds of Holland House, Kensington, London.
My jigsaw has a piece missing (top left corner) and two or three slightly damaged pieces, with a few lifting or lost pieces of image. It has a fantastic cut, with some spectacular whimsies (including F, H, L).
For more information about the artists John Young Hunter and Mary Young Hunter, and examples of their work, see the Pyms Gallery site:
www.pymsgallery.com/Exhib/YoungH/index.html
You can see a related 1898 painting by John on this blogspot, which has the title "My Lady's Garden":
peacocksgarden.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/john-young-hunter-m...
This earlier painting is owned by Tate Britain, who say:
"Painted in the grounds of Holland House, Kensington. The artist's first wife Mary (1872–1947) posed for the lady. The picture is cited in the Introduction to Royal Academy Pictures, 1899, with other imaginative canvases by the younger men as ‘typical examples of the modern spirit and as marking plainly the direction in which youthful fancy is disposed to tend’. A. L. Baldry described the school to which the artist and his wife belonged as ‘the new Pre-Raphaelites’ and said that it had grown up as a reaction against the realistic belief taught a quarter of a century before. According to him ‘My Lady's Garden’ was the first picture to show that this romantic tendency had gained a hold over the artist.
John Young HUNTER 1874–1955
Portrait, genre and landscape painter; began as a neo-Pre-Raphaelite, later turned mainly to portraiture. Born 29 October 1874 in Glasgow, son of Colin Hunter, R.A. Studied at the R.A. Schools and under Sargent, Alma-Tadema and Orchardson. Married Mary Towgood, painter and fellow-student, in 1899 and spent eight months with her in Italy, returning through Germany and Belgium. Exhibited at the R.A. from 1895; with his wife at the Fine Art Society in 1903 and at the Paris Salon (Medal 1914). Lived at Gifford's Hall, Suffolk. Settled in the U.S.A. in 1913 and painted scenes of Indian life as well as portraits. Died at Taos, New Mexico, 9 August 1955."
Chevrolet replaced the long-running C4 Corvette in 1997 with the new C5. As well as all-new, but recognisable styling, the C5 debuted a number of key innovations in its hydroformed inner structure.
All C5 Corvette's had power, the initial LS1 5.7L pushrod V8 producing 257 kW (345 hp), enough to push the Corvette to 282 km/h.
There were three body styles for the C5 generation Corvettes:
A) the Coupe (shown), which featured a removeable targa-top panel, and had an opening liftback luggage area,
B) the Hardtop, which was a notchback coupe-style, fixed roof panel, and
C) the convertible.
The Corvette plant is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and I was fortunate to have a Plant tour in 2001. Though the production rate is relatively low, the plant is clean and modern. The National Corvette Museum is located not far way. The area is in a beautiful part of the US, and close to the amazing Mammoth Cave.
The model here is shown in orange - not an available factory colour for the the C5 generation Corvette - though there have subsequently been many custom painted examples. I chose orange though, having recently built the somewhat underwhelming LEGO Technic Corvette in this colour.
Other C5 Corvette models are planned to follow.
As for most of the models built his November, the Chevrolet C5 Corvette is a major redesign of a previously created model. In LUGNuts there was a build challenge named 'Redo or Redemption' just for this type of build.
Tram tracks have a very limited number of years they can live. Contrary to most railway tracks, the changing of them is not easily done, as they are embedded into the street.
So this week the part between Goldbrunnenplatz and Gutstrasse is being replaced. Which means that they have around 48 hours to rip the old ones out, level the place again, put in the new drainage and install the new rails and start fixing them to the ground.
So it is a masterpiece of planning to get all the work done at the right point in time.
Replacing three bridges in Henrico County and one in Hanover County over the Chickahominy River on Mechanicsville Turnpike. (Photo by Trevor Wrayton, VDOT)
Photo call in the car park.
The bell from the redundant church of Holy Trinity, Bury, Lancashire was obtained from the Keltek Trust and bought to replace the much worn 1708 sixth bell at Allesley. It was cast by J. Taylor of Loughborough in 1907 in memory of Jane Wilson, the wife of the first vicar of Holy Trinity and was given by her sister. It bears the following inscription: -
May JESUS CHRIST be praised
To the glory of God
and in memory
of a loved sister
Jane Wilson
widow of the first vicar
of Holy Trinity Church Bury
Born 6 Nov. 1842. Died 29 July 1906
R. I. P.
The, now redundant, church of Holy Trinity, Bury, Lancashire was built between 1863 and 1865 at a cost of about £5,500. It was designed by the Lancaster architect Edward Graham Paley. The grade II listed building has now been sold for re-development.
The first vicar of Holy Trinity was the 35 year old Rev. Frederick Wilson who had been born in Weymouth, Dorset. On April 7th 1863 Frederick married Jane Parks at St Mary’s church Bury. Jane was a local girl, the daughter of Bury G.P. John Parks and his wife Sarah Ann. She was one of at least eight siblings, not all of whom may have survived childhood. She had herself been baptised at St. Mary’s, Bury in 1842.
By 1871 the couple, now established at the living of Holy Trinity, had a son and a daughter, Herbert and Lucy.
In 1876, after thirteen years at Holy Trinity, Frederick was appointed as Vicar of Sledmere, near Driffield in Yorkshire. Sadly, Frederick Wilson died on 17th August 1877 after a short illness, at the early age of 47. Even so, in that short time, by his zealous labours, he had endeared himself to his new parishioners.
In the 1881 census Jane, his widow, a teacher, is to be found living in Great Driffield, Yorkshire with her late husband’s clergyman brother Robert Wilson, who is curate at Middleton on the Wold. By 1891 Jane is living in Scarborough, still with her brother in law Robert, now retired. Also in the same house is Robert’s daughter Isabella Wilson and Jane’s niece Ada Grundy, both governesses.
By the time of the 1901 census Jane is alone, lodging in Scarborough. Her final illness started in February 1906 when she returned to Bury to be nursed by her sister and daughter. She died on the 29th July 1906 at the age of 63 at the home of her sister Mary Alice Martyn at 32, Heywood Street, Bury. Jane Wilson is buried at Sledmere, Yorkshire.
Holy Trinity must have been dear to both Jane and her family, as in 1907 her sister Mary Alice Martyn gave to the church a new bell and bell cote in memory of Jane. The bell was made by J. Taylor, bell founders of Loughborough and housed in a small wooden bell cote made of English oak, sited in the valley between the roofs of the chancel and the vestry. It was dedicated and first rung on Easter Sunday (31st March) 1907.