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Went up on Signal Hill this past week with one of the younger guys from my church. He's been getting into photography a little bit so I gave him one of my D90 bodies and we went out shooting. Not a great sunset, but we had some nice light for a while and it was a lovely evening so can't complain really. Got a couple of shots that I was happy with so figured I would share.
All shot with my D90 and 17-55mm f/2.8 lens.
Reflections on the Snake River at Oxbow Bend with Signal Mountain int the background. I rediscovered this image yesterday while backing up my photo files.
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
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Performers Ben Murrie, left, and Amber Kelly, right, act out a dating scene during the ‘Sex Signals’ presentation at the Galaxy theater on Vogelweh July 20. The show is a 90 minute two person improvisational show with skits that includes discussion on varied topics such as dating, rape, consent, alcohol, and intervention within the military. (Photo by Sgt. Frank Sanchez III, 21st TSC Public Affairs)
“60th Anniversary” “Diamond Anniversary”
“Timeline of disaster”
“0745: Princess Victoria leaves Stranraer
0900: Wave bursts through stern doors
0946: First emergency signal sent: No tugs available
1032: SOS call: "Car deck flooded"
1100: Portpatrick lifeboat given wrong directions
1300: Starboard engine room flooded - position critical
1308: Ship lying on beam end
1315: "We are preparing to abandon ship"
1330: Steamer passes Victoria without seeing her
1340: Passengers ordered to deck
1358: Last message from ferry's radio operator”
“Princess Victoria sinking remembered 60 years on”
Sixty years ago, the MV Princess Victoria sank off the County Down coast in treacherous weather, with the loss of 133 lives.
Stop anyone on the street and ask them about Titanic, chances are they will know something about the maritime tragedy.
But despite the fact that no women or children survived the sinking of the Princess Victoria, you might get a more quizzical look.
Now the grief, heroism and the impact this tragic story had on communities in Northern Ireland and Scotland is retold in a BBC Radio Ulster documentary on Sunday.
Almost 60 years ago this sea disaster - one of the worst to happen in British coastal waters - dominated the headlines and devastated families and communities in Larne, Stranraer and further afield.
The omens were not good on the day the ferry sank - 31 January 1953.
Parts of western Europe and the UK were in the grip of freak weather from the north Atlantic.
Severe gales battered coastlines and floods hit many areas, killing hundreds of people. It was in these treacherous conditions that the Princess Victoria set sail from Stranraer.
Larne man, John McKnight, 92, is one of the few remaining survivors. He was chief cook on the ferry and remembers that day vividly.
"I started work at 5.30am and the train from London arrived (in Stranraer) at 6am. Everything had to be prepared for breakfast, we served that to the passengers before setting sail. The ferry proceeded up Loch Ryan and soon we discovered that there was a severe gale blowing," he recalled.
Fate sealed
At the helm of the Princess Victoria that day was 55-year-old Captain James Ferguson. An experienced seaman, he had worked on the Larne - Stranraer route for many years.
Captain Ferguson's troubles started when he steered the ferry out of Loch Ryan.
Jack Hunter, a retired school teacher from Stranraer, who has written about the tragedy, explained what happened next.
"Out of the shelter of the loch, Captain Ferguson discovered that the sea was much worse and perhaps with a change of direction, the ship was having more difficulty," he said.
"For one reason or another, the captain decided to try turn back and head for Stranraer. It was at this point that the ferry had a calamitous encounter with a large wave, which stove in the stern doors."
This brush with mother nature at her worst was, ultimately, to seal the fate of the Princess Victoria.
A memorial to those who lost their lives in the Princess Victoria tragedy stands in Stranraer
With the stern doors irreparably damaged, water flooding the car deck and inadequate drainage on board, Captain Ferguson decided the best course of action was to try and steer the ship towards Northern Ireland.
Passengers and crew
As disaster unfolded, the 127 passengers and 49 crew members found themselves locked in a terrible and increasingly impossible struggle for survival.
On board were people from all social classes.
Families with young children, servicemen, Short Brothers workers from the company's Scottish base and two politicians - the Northern Ireland deputy prime minister, Maynard Sinclair and Sir Walter Smiles, the north Down MP. Both men died when the ship went down.
At 09:46 GMT, the Princess Victoria sent its first request for help. David Broadfoot, the ship's radio officer, was not supposed to be working that day but had swapped shifts with another crew member.
Stephen Cameron, author of a book on the Princess Victoria tragedy, said David Broadfoot was posthumously awarded the George Cross for his heroic actions."He stayed in his cabin broadcasting continuously, at one stage he even apologised to radio stations (that were picking up his signals) for the poor quality of his Morse code. David's last message was sent as the ship went under," he said.
In those final traumatic hours, many other people showed fortitude and compassion in the face of certain death.
One of them was Castlerock woman, Nansy Bryson, who has been called the "heroine of the Princess Victoria".
She worked as a missionary in Kenya and was back home with her husband and three children, visiting relatives.
Nansy had travelled to Scotland for some meetings and was returning to Northern Ireland on the ferry. Her daughter, Margaret Njonjo, hasn't talked about the tragedy in public before and shared her pride in her mother.
"She was one of the bravest women on board who whispered words of comfort to other passengers and led them in singing a hymn. She also tried to help a three year old child into one of the lifeboats but failed to do so, going under (the water) herself in the process," Margaret said.
"My sisters and I are glad to know she found immense strength in her own faith, to the point of being able to help others."
Rescue attempt
When Captain Ferguson made the final call to abandon ship, eyewitnesses say he was at the bridge as the Princess Victoria went under. It happened just five miles off the Copeland Islands and within sight of the north Down coast.
Some passengers and crew were able to reach the ship's lifeboats although, tragically, one carrying women and children crashed against the side of the ferry, throwing everyone into the icy waters. All of them died.
The frantic search for survivors involved steamers, trawlers, a naval boat and the Donaghadee lifeboat, the Sir Samuel Kelly. Its crew eventually plucked 33 men to safety. Bravery medals were awarded to many for their valiant rescue efforts that day.
Only 44 men survived the sinking of the Princess Victoria - more than three times that number perished. For families, especially in Larne and Stranraer, the news that a loved one had died was too much to bear.
Captain Ferguson's son, Jim, who was 18 when the tragedy happened, remembers the show of support from his father's colleagues.
Jack Peoples was the youngest crew member to die
"A few of the sailors who survived, came to our house over the next few days to speak to my mother. She appreciated it very much, particularly in times of difficulty and stress for them," Jim remembered.
Emotion
"I still feel his loss, very much so, I loved my father."
When Betty Crawford thinks of her brother Jack Peoples, it is often with raw emotion. At 16, the Larne teenager was the youngest crew member to die.
"(On the day of the tragedy) my mum disappeared. I found her in the garden where she was praying to God to please bring back his body. And God answered her prayer because she got his body back," Betty said.
"Jack's was one of the first funerals to take place, I remember throngs of people there and men with tears running down their cheeks. There was a numbness about it all and disbelief."
Two months after the disaster, a court of inquiry was convened in Belfast. A verdict was reached that the Princess Victoria was not a seaworthy ship, because of the inadequate strength of the stern doors and a lack of drainage on its car deck.
On two previous occasions - in 1949 and 1951 - these same design faults had caused problems on the ferry. Jack Hunter believes if they had been fixed back then, things might have been very different.
"Most certainly, it is a disaster that could have, and should have been avoided. The problems were discovered, they were known to be there, one assumes they were reported through official channels, yet nothing was done about them," he said.
Whatever the causes of the Princess Victoria sinking to a watery grave on that stormy Saturday afternoon in January 1953, the passing of time has not erased the sorrow felt by many, whose loved ones went down with the ship.
They are commemorated every year at services in Larne, Stranraer and in Donaghadee - and on the forthcoming 60th anniversary, the overriding sentiment will remain the same.
“Never forget”
1953: 130 die in ferry disaster. The Princess Victoria, a British Railways car ferry, bound for Larne in Northern Ireland, had left Stranraer on the south-west coast of Scotland an hour before when the stern gates to the car deck were forced open in heavy seas.
Water flooded into the ship and as the cargo shifted, the ferry, one of the first of the roll on-roll off design, fell onto her side and within four hours she sank.
Among the passengers who perished were the Northern Ireland Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Major J M Sinclair, and Sir Walter Smiles, the Ulster Unionist MP for North Down.
The Princess Victoria went down off the coast near Donaghadee with a loss of 133 lives, only 44 men survived and no women or children. All the ship's officers including the Captain, James Ferguson, perished. It was the worst 20th century peacetime disaster in British waters.
The Donaghadee lifeboat (along with the Portpatrick and Cloughy lifeboats) went out into the raging seas of the great storm and under coxswain Hugh Nelson the crew of the Sir Samuel Kelly rescued 33 of the 44 survivors in seas with waves reported to be 50 to 60 feet high.
Today; the Sir Samuel Kelly sits in Donaghadee behind a builders fence.
College Street, PED XING - Chinatown Central Plaza Mid-Block Pedestrian Crosswalk Crossing traffic signal flashing yellow lights switched off and Bernard Street intersection traffic signal flashing red lights modification controlled by LADOT Special Traffic Operations during the operation of the Los Angeles Chinatown Golden Dragon Parade located at 639 to 651 North Broadway in Chinatown Los Angeles, California 90012 between two towers of Jia Apartments 甲公寓 and Cathay Manor Senior Apartments 國泰莊園老人公寓, LA Vision Optometry, Never Caged on Lokels Only, Teo Chew Association Temple 潮州會館廟 and BC Plaza 百昌商場.
Note: The new current G.D.P. route travelled Southbound Broadway and made a left turn at Eastbound West Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and ENDS at a right turn into Southbound Spring Street Olvera Street for parade floats disbanding zone since February 2007 to February 2012 but now this Golden Dragon Parade route on Southbound Broadway turns right to Westbound Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and ENDS at North Hill Street overpass bridge and North Grand Avenue for parade floats disbanding zone since February 2013 to present. The former G.D.P. route was on Northbound Broadway (ended here until 2000) from Cesar E. Chavez Avenue to Bernard Street and Southbound Hill Street at Ord Street took place here until 2006.
The former G.D.P. route was on Northbound Broadway (ended here until 2000) from Cesar E. Chavez Avenue to Bernard Street and Southbound Hill Street at Ord Street took place here until 2006.
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The 1905 North Eastern Railway signal box at Saltmarshe. Now used for controlling the level crossing gates. It was built to an NE S2 type design.
Here we see the very traditional looking Rigton Signal Box. It was built in 1873 and is a NES1a design of box. The box has 6 levers:
1 = Down Home
2 = Down Distant
3 = Spare
4 = Up Distant
5 = Up Home
6 = Gate Locks
This box also has inboard distant levers which means that the levers are in the order they are pulled off rather than in the order that the driver will see them. This was common across the LNER another example of this would be Oxmardyke.
All signals controlled by the box are colour lights and the level crossing barriers are worked from a gate wheel inside the box.
The box works Absolute Block to Harrogate and Horsforth Signal Boxes. The box was originally a Gate Box but as other Signal Boxes along the line were closed it became a block post.
Unfortunately along with Horsforth, this box will probably have been closed by the end of 2012 with all control going to a new panel at Harrogate signal box. This is part of the resignalling that will see the closure of all boxes between Leeds and York via Harrogate within the next few years with control eventually all going to York IECC and York IECC is going to close when the new Rail Operating Centre at York opens. This will be 1 of 14 regional operating centres proposed by Network Rail to replace over 800 signal boxes nationwide.
There are going to be a couple of semaphore signals on my train layout, I'd like to have then working, so here is my first attempt at controlling them with an RCX brick.
Diverted away from its normal route via Sevenoaks because of engineering works, unit 1036 leads a Charing Cross - Hastings train past the semaphore signals on the approach to Redhill station.
The buildings were built in 1813. Until 1955 these buildings formed the shore station and family living quarters for the light keepers on the Bell Rock Lighthouse which lies 11.5 miles out from Arbroath on a dangerous semi-sunken reef. Both lighthouse and shore station were built by Robert Stevenson, founder of the famous dynasty of lighthouse engineers.
At Arbroath Signal Tower you can find out about the fascinating history of the Bell Rock Lighthouse and visit the outhouse to see the massive lens of the last manually operated lamp.
The buildings were built in 1813. Until 1955 these buildings formed the shore station and family living quarters for the light keepers on the Bell Rock Lighthouse which lies 11.5 miles out from Arbroath on a dangerous semi-sunken reef. Both lighthouse and shore station were built by Robert Stevenson, founder of the famous dynasty of lighthouse engineers.
At Arbroath Signal Tower you can find out about the fascinating history of the Bell Rock Lighthouse and visit the outhouse to see the massive lens of the last manually operated lamp.
Signals long forgotten guard the waterside drill track coming into Emeryville, CA., from Berkeley, CA. Today this signal sees trains by the dozen, but over the rails and switch it guards. One day soon, Union Pacific and the State of California want to enhance access into the Port of Oakland, and this signal may see traffic again!
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Singleton signal box and site of former sidings. Saturday 15 November 1975
View north towards Poulton-le-Fylde
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B. Slide No.2305
laden to the brim with water,
I trundle across the vast skies,
my path slowed by protruding mountain rock,
I bask in the rays of the setting sun,
and serve as your reliable weather cock,
I build, I gather, I grow,
I darken, I lighten, I glow
and then I release my full load,
unto thy waiting lands below.
Sunset at Signal Hill, Cape Town, on a day when the clouds came low down, the mist appeared and the sun shone above all of them.
The most offensive part of the new traffic signals at Piedmont and Linda is this pair of demand-actuated pedestrian signals across the entrance to a small commercial driveway.
Fortunately, as far as I can tell, pedestrians uniformly ignore both the lights and the buttons here and cross the driveway against the light without hesitation, making the lights a waste of money but not an actual impediment to pedestrian travel.
In general the idea behind the signals seems to be to give, whenever possible, southbound traffic on Piedmont a constant green light with an occasional left turn arrow. Northbound traffic has to stop for the turn arrow. Both directions have to stop when demand builds up a little on Linda.
Pedestrians, however, receive a constant "don't walk" signal in all directions unless they stop and ask for a "walk" signal. They tend to get it reasonably quickly unless there are cars around, in which case there can be considerable delay. Many people did not press the buttons at all and just crossed against the light or gave up on waiting and crossed before they got the phase they had asked for.
Before yesterday there was a three-way stop sign here, and pedestrians could legally and in practice cross at all times with only slight delay to wait for cars to clear the intersection.
February 16th, 2015 - Bottlenose Capture and Slaughter — at Taiji Japan
Disturbing and sinister scenes this morning saw another swift drive end in the live capture of 5 adult Bottlenose Dolphins, plus the butchering of another 2 adults and 1 defenceless baby.
As this once completely free pod was driven in towards the Taiji Cove, the future of this small close-knit family remained uncertain. Relentless harassment from the circling skiffs and drive boats instilled fear and panic among the adults, as they searched for an escape route to freedom both for themselves, and the helpless baby dolphin clinging to their side. But their tireless efforts to escape were to prove completely futile.
In a truly disgusting display of power and gluttony, dozens of Taiji killers and dolphin trainers laughed and joked with excitement as some herded the pod towards their final taste of freedom, and others tossing used cigarette butts into the water as they waited. They were unable to contain their greedy and excitable expressions as their collective vision of hauling in the next "Cash-Cow Catch" was becoming reality. Five adults Bottlenose were hand picked by the local 'Taiji Whale Museum" trainers, harnessed into slings, then transferred to floating pens within the Taiji Harbour, where they now begin their epic journey of torturous starvation, medicated feeding and belittling hand signals from their new task masters and rulers. For the remaining two adults and the one defenceless juvenile, no time was wasted as they were subjected to the same pain and suffering as the thousands of small cetaceans slain in these waters before them. Today's livestream is available at livestream.seashepherd.org
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd
Hooray ! Explore December 30, 2009 - ♪☻♥♫ These photos have made it to Flickr's Explore! ♪♥☺♫
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This is a December 10, 2007 three shot panorama overlooking Long Bay and Charlotte Amalie from Paradise Point on St Thomas Island, US Virgin Islands (see map).
When I returned to Detroit on December 16, 2007 it was during a snow blizzard and over a foot of snow had already accumulated!
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The permissible speeds for station routes and the open line in Denmark are prescribed in the TIB ("Appendix to the Working Timetable). The colour light signals indicate just a speed range which is specified in TIB. Certainly the information of the fixed signals and TIB is superseded by a ATC cab indication ...
Special signal heads for diverging routes: these signals are very rare and give no turnout/ speed information if the aspect is shown at an angle of 45° like British or some American signals. This special appearance is used only to give a direction indication, e. g. to avoid that a freight train is headed to a platform line. I guess, there are just a hand full signals with this special appearance!
A return visit to the Bluebell was made on the Wed.of our Hol.week 'down south' - this time in proper Bluebell weather.
Horsted Keynes has just about to be my favourite preserved station with its spacious layout . This is the southern end with the fine signal box. More shots from this day have already been posted and appear in my Bluebell album.
A Class 220 Cross Country Voyager arrives at platform 1 at Derby with a Reading to Newcastle service
Older Eagle traffic signals along TX 7 at TX 6 Business in Marlin, Texas. This is somewhat of an anomaly since most Texas signals are pole-mounted horizontal signals
A great signal generator that can be had for a very reasonable price. Thousands of these were made and many found their way to Canadian high schools as part of the electronics program. Also available in the Starkit name could be purchased in kit form and assembled by the end user. This is my everyday signal generator.
As a method of time-keeping that began in 1806, the noon gun on Signal Hill is still a popular alarm in Cape Town today. The firing of cannons from Signal Hill served to fulfil many maritime purposes, such as signalling distress calls or calibrating on-board time-keeping mechanism.
Signal Hill, Cape Town, Western Cape
traffic signals at beck rd and I-696(Novi, MI)
same like the ones at the new gateway bridge at Telegragh rd.and 1-94.