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Well since my last post I have been putting in extra details in the Clyde yard and checking them against the current Linz aerial footage that I have used. This work is now complete. There is just some checking to be done against the 1992 aerial footage and also one change to be done to Cromwell yard with the pre-1961 goods shed location before I start writing.
The east end of Clyde yard. Starting from the right we have the site of the engine depot (E), former cattleyards (Y), coal depot (F) and water tanks (W). In the middle we have the site of the turntable and to the left can be seen a row of houses of which three still remain today. Whitby Street did not cross the railway here as it was built across after the line closed, so there was not a street going between two of the houses as is the case today.
The middle of Clyde yard. As can be seen the three houses remaining on the north side of the line were part of a row of six or more originally. A water vat and some more houses were on the south side opposite. House 212 was at one time the stationmaster's house. Station facilities included a goods shed and loading bank; the shed was relocated nearby after the station closed, as seen in the next map. The Clyde station building was for many years occupied by a vintage farm machinery museum that was evicted for lease arrears; it was believed the group was using the site for storage and had no intention of opening to the public. The building for the last two years is now occupied by a rail trail related business.
West end of Clyde yard. The stockyards were in this position when aerial photos were taken in the 1960s. We can also see the sites of three more houses (one still exists today), a water vat and the current location of the goods shed, which was moved to become part of the Clyde Briar Herb Museum complex. At the time of writing the museum is closed due to some of the buildings being earthquake prone and in poor condition.
The Clyde railyard as seen in February 1979. The operating facilities were limited to the immediate vicinity of the station just 14 months prior to closure.
Entrance to the Cromwell Gorge just above the Clyde Dam as seen in February 1979. The new highway can be seen joining to the old route at Dairy Creek with the extension above it being started. New oxidation ponds are being built and a gully filled just below them, some of the extensive earthworks that changed the shape of the gorge to reduce instability.
Clyde dam site February 1979. The green rectangle shows where the river diversion channel was already being cut out of the river bank. Foundations and sluices were built in this channel and then the river was diverted through them to give a dry foundation under the rest of the dam. This is where the administration offices and staff parking are located today, just below the powerhouse.
Google Earth view of the dam today with water spilling on the spillway to the right. To the left can be seen the diversion channel with four low level sluice channels in the water at the bottom of it it. Three of these sluices were permanently closed when the dam began filling; the remaining channel is closed by a gate which can be opened if needed to draw down the reservoir and which is regularly tested for correct operation. Directly above the channel are two high level sluices or penstocks that have never been completed. There may have been an intention to extend the powerhouse and add two more turbines and generators at this location when the dam was first designed. However the design was changed midway through construction to add the earthquake slip joint and the associated changes apparently included deleting the last two penstocks and associated generation machinery.
Early stage of dam construction with the diversion sluices in place above the channel.
Another view of the diversion from the upstream side of the dam. The high level sluices to the "spare penstocks" are visible as well as the four vertical gates in place to close off the sluices when the lake is ready to be filled. One of the sluices is now fitted with a radial gate to allow it to be reopened if necessary.
In 1992 a group of environmentalists took the opportunity to raft the river before the dam was completely closed up. This upstream view of the dam shows the river at its pre-hydro level. The entrances to the four operational penstocks and two "spare penstocks" can be seen with the sluice gates below the latter. The rafters passed through one of the diversion channels before they were permanently closed to fill the lake.


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The 1.95 m tall (nicknamed "The Wardrobe" for his imposing stature) was a strong, aggressive, but good-hearted player, loved by both club members and opponents. His playing style and ability drew made many football pundits compare him to Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira, who was equally born in Dakar, Senegal.
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Commercial energy contracts in the UK fix prices over specific lengths of time, usually one year, although arrangements up to five years are also negotiated. All but five percent of the UK commercial energy market is supplied by the six companies of Scottish Power, SSE, E.ON Energy, EDF Energy, Npower and British Gas.
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Crystal resumes ocean cruising after COVID pause
Crystal executive lauds Bahama's Ministry of Tourism
By latteluxurynews Last updated Jul 5, 2021
Crystal Cruises has resumed its ocean cruise operation, with Crystal Serenity setting sail from the Port of Nassau on its week-long Luxury Bahamas Escapes voyage exploring the islands. Crystal Serenity will now homeport in the Bahamas for four months.
After more than a year of anticipation and planning, the long-awaited return to cruising was celebrated with a Homeporting Inauguration Ceremony in Nassau by Crystal executives, Bahamian government officials and dignitaries from the Port of Nassau.
Guests boarded Crystal Serenity for the first time since spring of 2020 and were welcomed back by officers, staff and crew of Crystal's flagship. A Junkanoo parade entertained guests in a lively Bahamian tradition of music, dancing and colourful costumes at the pier. The ship received a water cannon salute as she left the harbour with the sounds of Crystal Cruises' signature sail away song "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong as the musical backdrop for this milestone moment.
Images courtesy of Kemuel Stubbs/Crystal Cruises
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"We are delighted to celebrate this historic day in Nassau as Crystal Serenity resumes sailing and welcomes our guests, who we consider our Crystal Family, back on board," said Carmen Roig, Senior Vice President of marketing and sales for Crystal.
"This is a historic moment for Crystal, our employees, and especially for our officers and crew and we are happy to be back where we belong, sailing the oceans of the world and creating experiences that become cherished lifelong memories. We want to thank our travel partners for their support during this long journey back to sailing and our loyal Crystal guests for standing with us and cheering us on to this joyful moment," Roig remarked.
She described the partnership with the Bahamian Government as "beyond belief" and lauded the way in which the country had embraced Crystal.
"The last 17 months for all of our lives, the industry has been devastated. It's been brought to its knees. My office overlooks PortMiami and it's supposed to be Cruise Capital of the World and yet there are ships sitting idle. So many people lost their jobs. In 40 years, I would've never believed that this could happen. But it did," Roig said.
"But here we are today in a totally different moment in time. A time that we will seize."
"The Bahamas has been an amazing partner with us, has fulfilled this dream we did not believe that we could sail.
"Working with the ministry of tourism, closely, aligned, has allowed us to arrive at this moment," Roig added.
Crystal Serenity will homeport in Nassau through 13 November 2021, departing round-trip every Saturday for the line's Luxury Bahamas Escapes. Guests will also have the option of sailing round-trip from Bimini for Luxury Bahamas Escapes. The seven-day voyages exploring the island nation's "Out Islands" with calls in Great Exuma, San Salvador and Long Island.
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Archived Press Release: Brightcove Unveils Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1
February 15, 2010 at 12:00 AM EST
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BARCELONA, February 15, 2010—Today at the Mobile World Congress, Brightcove Inc., the leading online video platform, unveiled the Brightcove Mobile Experience for Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1, enabling organizations to easily deliver an optimized video viewing experience across smartphone platforms running Flash Player 10.1 when it is available, including Google Android, Symbian S60, Palm webOS, Windows Mobile and Research in Motion BlackBerry. The solution makes it possible to deploy video that adapts on demand to the playback environment to deliver a superior experience across desktops and mobile devices.
Customers already taking advantage of the Brightcove Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 include AOL, Atlantic Records, La Vanguardia, National Geographic, The New York Times, STV, Sun Media and The Weinstein Company.
"Flash Player 10.1 introduces a powerful suite of capabilities that improve the quality and consistency of video on mobile devices," said Jeff Whatcott, senior vice president of marketing at Brightcove. "We are excited to extend our online video platform with the Brightcove Mobile Experience, which makes it easy for our customers to publish high quality video across leading smartphones."
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 makes it possible for mobile platforms to run the standard Brightcove video player with the same fidelity and features as desktop platforms. For the first time, Brightcove customers will be able to bring their content to mobile audiences with full support for media player styling, secure multi-bitrate streaming, deep audience profiling and analytics, sophisticated advertising, and the full universe of more than 120 powerful media player plug-ins and extensions from Brightcove Alliance partners. The Brightcove Mobile Experience for Flash Player 10.1 includes new Brightcove player templates that offer user interface controls that are specifically designed for video viewing on compact screens found on leading smartphone platforms. The solution also includes device detection code and best practices for dynamically switching between desktop-optimized and mobile-optimized player templates.
Using hardware-based H.264 video decoding and CPU optimization, Flash Player 10.1 improves mobile video playback performance while reducing system resource utilization and preserving battery life. The Brightcove Mobile Experience solution leverages Brightcove's cloud transcoding capabilities to deliver mobile-ready H.264 encoded video from any standard format source file. These encoding capabilities, in conjunction with the standard secure multi-bitrate streaming and monetization capabilities of the Brightcove platform, open the door to high quality long-form content delivery to mobile devices for the first time.
"Flash Player 10.1 enables developers and content publishers to deliver rich Web content and applications to mobile users regardless of the device or platform they choose to use," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president, Platform Business at Adobe. "As one of the leading cloud-based online video platforms, Brightcove is perfectly set up to help content providers easily distribute their videos across Flash-enabled mobile devices worldwide."
The Brightcove Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 solution is a seamless extension to the Brightcove online video platform and is available today in an invitation-only beta release. The solution will be generally available later this year and provided free of charge to Brightcove's global customer base of more than 1,000 media publishers and marketers.
"The rise of mobile video has introduced even more ways for music fans to interact with their favorite artists," said Eric Snowden, senior director of product development at Atlantic Records. "The new capabilities in the Brightcove platform enable us to easily roll out and monetize high quality, interactive mobile video for all of our Web properties, including popular artists like Kid Rock and Shinedown, as well as original content filmed in our recording studio for Studio1290.com."
"National Geographic is all about telling inspiring stories," said Pablo Silva, vice president of global online publishing at Fox International Channels. "Part of our mission at Fox International Channels is to look for new ways and platforms to tell these stories. With the Brightcove Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, we're a step closer to delivering on this promise by publishing high quality, mobile video across multiple devices while still being able to protect, track and monetize our content."
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"The Brightcove platform has enabled us to provide an unrivaled video viewing experience on stv.tv and for our catch-up TV programming on STV Player," said Alistair Brown, head of digital at STV. "Now, with the Brightcove Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, we have the potential to extend our initiatives and deliver the highest quality online video experience possible across all consumer channels and devices."
"We are excited to leverage the capabilities of the Brightcove Mobile Experience for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 as we look to expand our online video offerings to additional mobile devices and platforms," said Raymond Ostor, general manager of digital media at Sun Media. "Brightcove's unique encoding capabilities enable us to efficiently optimize our video content for up to HD-quality viewing experiences on the Web and for high quality delivery and viewing on a range of handheld devices."
The Adobe Flash Platform is the leading Web design and development platform for creating expressive applications, content, and video that run consistently across operating systems and devices and reach more than 98 percent of Internet-enabled desktops. Flash Player 10 was installed on more than 93 percent of computers in just the first ten months since its release. According to comScore Media Metrix, approximately 75 percent of online videos viewed worldwide are delivered using Adobe Flash technology, making it the number one format for video on the Web. Major broadcasters and media companies, including Disney.com, MLB.com and DIRECTV, rely on the Adobe Flash Platform for delivering video on the Web and the platform powers social network sites such as YouTube and MySpace. For more information about the Adobe Flash Platform visit http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform.
Today's announcement delivers on Brightcove and Adobe's ongoing strategic alliance, announced in April 2009, to collaborate on technology and services that will enhance the quality of online video experiences.
To learn more about the Brightcove Mobile Experience solution for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, visit http://www.brightcove.com/en/video-platform/solutions/mobile-experience/flash-player.
About Brightcove
Brightcove is a cloud-based online video platform. Media companies, businesses and organizations worldwide use Brightcove to publish and distribute video on the Web. Founded in 2004, Brightcove has offices across North America, Europe and Asia and customers in 34 countries. For more information, visit http://www.brightcove.com.
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That kind of optimism is a welcome quality in the world of senior care, where patience, a smile and a great attitude go a long way, all of which helped forge Sugranes' path to her new life in New Jersey as a care aide at The Chelsea at Toms River assisted living residence.
At the urging of Chelsea Senior Living CEO Herb Heflich, the company embarked on a mission to recruit people left jobless by the Puerto Rican disaster, not only to employ them but train them, pay their way to the mainland, give them a place to live and a little starter cash. The only caveats were they had to speak English and commit to working for Chelsea for at least a year. Recruitment was done through newspapers in New Jersey and Puerto Rico and through the distribution of flyers on the island.
The opportunity came at just the right time. Things had gotten better in Caguas. Her elderly parents had a generator and Sugranes' two brothers and two sisters were there to take care of them.
Meanwhile at The Chelsea, the project hit a sweet spot for LPN Laura MacDonald, who saw it as an incredible opportunity.
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"Laura was 100% all over it," said Craig Sydor, Executive Director of the Chelsea at Toms River, who drove to Newark Airport on January 3rd to pick up Sugranes, then brought her to the Chelsea, her new home and work place. Sydor joined MacDonald and other team members in purchasing furniture and amenities for Sugranes' apartment at The Chelsea, along with a welcome basket of toiletries.
Now, Sugranes is back doing what she has enjoyed most in life, helping elderly people. In Puerto Rico she was inspired by her grandmother, whom she helped take care of before traveling to London to live with her then-husband.
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Academic journal article The Canadian Geographer
The Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of a Rural Landscape" the Yucatec Maya K'ax
By Brown, Denise Fay
For most of the past century, academic descriptions of different types of rural landscapes primarily focused on the various material elements that comprised these areas. Such landscapes have mainly been interpreted by outsiders, who have paid limited attention to the processes and mindsets of the people who created them. This neglect does not deny that there is a long tradition of sensitivity to the role of culture in affecting the form and character of rural landscapes, notably the 'landscape school' of Carl Sauer (Sauer 1925; Matthewson and Kenser 2003). More recently, the pioneering work of Cosgrove (1988) and others (Bender 1993; Mitchell 2000; Robertson and Richards 2003) have made it clear that it is necessary to go beyond the description of empirical conditions. Instead, these contemporary scholars have argued that these landscapes are cultural constructions that have meaning for their inhabitants and are intimately linked to the social reproduction of the societies that created them. Indeed, landscapes embody material, social and cultural (meaningful) elements of these societies, and play a role in the transmission of values and environmental practices through the generations. Hence, the physical manifestation of landscape should be understood as a cultural expression of values and meaning systems. Advocates of this approach, known as the New Cultural Geography, have contributed to the study of rural landscapes by providing four innovative arguments. First, it is proposed that agricultural landscapes should be seen as 'text', with the individual elements having meanings that can be read in the landscape and which have specific roles in the transmission of cultural values. Such interpretations parallel the work of Duncan (1990) who showed how the urban landscape of historic Kandy did not simply reflect societal values but that aspects of it were actively created as representations designed to reproduce particular values and beliefs, themselves linked to specific power structures in the regimes that created these urban landscapes. Second, cultural features should not be viewed as objects, of a series of products, but understood as evidence of a process (Mitchell 2000, 294). As summarized by Davies and Gilmartin (2002, p. 18) emphasis is placed upon 'why the object was created, what agencies were involved, the alternative forms that could have been taken, the struggles over which form or trait was chosen, the power that conditioned the final choice, and the inevitable inequalities that result, among individuals, groups or spaces where the objects or activities are found'. Third, study of the use of the local environment by rural societies reveals the presence of specific environmental values that influence how areas are used, for the use and/or modification of the natural environment frequently plays a significant part in the cultural distinctiveness of various groups. That is, the new approaches offer a more holistic view, one that contrasts with a conventional Western dichotomy into 'nature' and 'society' that were embedded in earlier understandings. Fourth, the new approach stresses the need to create concepts and interpretations of landscapes that are not culture-specific or culturally dominant, and in which a more focused understanding of indigenous values and practices in the description and evaluation of these landscapes is an integral part of the interpretation.
Many recent studies have shown a growing self-consciousness of the researcher as positioned and privileged which, in turn, has led to a new sensitivity to indigenous organizational principles (e.g., Basso 1996; Escobar 1998; Steinberg 1998; Dove 2003; Duvall 2003; Hunn et al. 2003). The concern to understand local spatial concepts is salient when comparing landscapes across cultures, or in areas where competing principles for resource definition and use produce contested landscapes. In such a comparative framework, there is a heightened need to be cautious about applying concepts and labels emerging from the outsider if specific indigenous landscapes are to be properly understood. …
Publication: The Canadian Geographer
Publication date: Spring 2007
Brown, Denise Fay
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By Steve Morris 9th April 2018 April 11th, 2018 News
Cooks and Company would like to congratulate Olivia Mathias on her performance at the Commonwealth games in Australia. Olivia has had a fantastic run with Wales coming 6th overall.
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Olivia did her A levels in June 2017 at The Girls Grammar School in Grantham and then started at Loughborough University in October. She is studying Industrial Design.
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The proposed meeting is another one in a sequence of "Surfaces" conferences occurring every 2 years. The two most recent editions were organized at the University of Sao Paulo (2014) and Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques in Luminy, France (2016). This series aims at providing a platform for exchanging the most recent advances in the area of Surface Dynamics and creating an ambient atmosphere for international collaborations leading to new projects, publications and future co-operations.
The study of dynamical systems on surfaces goes back to Poincaré and Birkhoff, with motivations from celestial mechanics. Nowadays a lot of progress in dynamics, also differentiable and complex, is achieved by studies on topology and geometry of invariant sets, in which the dynamical complexity of systems is often encoded. The topics of the meeting cover topological and dynamical properties of surfaces (or more generally, low dimensional spaces).
The lectures will start on Monday, April 16 and will finish in the Friday early afternoon, April 20.
The conference is organized by Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow and Gdansk University of Technology. In addition, it has been generously supported by DUN Programme 860/P-DUN/2018 of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.


I hope you had a great weekend! You may or may not have been on spring break last week, like us! I had a restful and good spring break. I finished up some projects around my house, got some actual cleaning done, tried to catch up on my laundry, did some organizing, spent some family time, had a date night, etc. Unfortunately, I started back to work this morning. But I should have plenty of good posts coming up to show you since I had some spare time last week. First off, some simple organizing I accomplished. My two son's share a bathroom. Their vanity has a cabinet with double doors and two drawers. I had the cabinets pretty well organized since moving in, but the drawers were a mess, so I decided to tackle those.
Do you remember my post from Friday? Well, I decided to use these grey bins below in the bathroom drawers.
This is the top drawer before.Just pretty much a mish mash of items.
This is more of the same, but it is the bottom drawer. They are very nice deep drawers.
I started by just removing everything and piling it on the floor. Then I sorted and purged.
I have the grey bins for one drawer, but I needed more. I looked around the house and just could not find anything to use. Then I remembered this post I read on I Heart Organizing not too long ago. I jumped online to find it. She used Cereal boxes as drawer organizers! Genius! I had several cereal boxes. So I grabbed a couple and got to work. I used Jen's tutorial and it worked out perfectly! Whoop whoop! Here are my cereal box bins! You have seen this wrapping paper from Target's $1 section both here and here.
I thought I would show you under the sink in the cabinets. This is pretty much exactly the way I organized it since we moved in, and it has held up very well. Here is the tour. Wee those black baskets in the back left corner? They are from Target. They have little handles that flip out so that you can stack them on top of each other. These two baskets hold travel bags and travel sized items. These things do not just belong to the boys. They belong to the family, but I had no place else to put them. The black bin in the front left is also from Target, and it holds bubble bath, spare hand soap, a cup to rinse the bathtub with, and cleaning sponges. In the front right is our first aid kit. And then you can clearly see our cleaning products. These are things I use to clean their bathroom. I try to keep cleaning products under each sink. It makes it so much easier. Mr. 13 Year Old uses the Clorox wipes to clean his shoes a lot. You can also see that I had lined the bottom of the cabinet with contact paper. I would not call it pretty, but it is very functional.
Here is the bottom drawer after the organization. You can see I used my cereal box bins in the back. They hold plastic cups, trash can liners, small packs of tissues and the thermometers. In the front are the toilet paper wipes. Can't live without those! I keep them in every bathroom. Great for cleanliness! Right there in the middle are some of Mr. 13 Year Old's products. I am on the hunt for a bin to contain these items but have not found the perfect size, yet.
This is the top drawer. The back bin contains a trimmer. The middle bin contains first aid ointment, ant itch cream, a razor and some self tanning lotion. The front bin contains combs, toothpaste, chap stick and dental floss. Over to the left is the toothpaste Mr. 5 year Old's toothbrush, and a couple of random things.
Just in case you were wondering, this is the cabinet over their toilet. I thought I would go ahead and show you the inside of it while I am at it. You can clearly see what it contains.
And this is where I keep their bath towels and hand towels. It is not ideal, but it works for now. If we have company coming, I usually just pick this up and sit it inside of the shower.
This blog is really showing the use of bathroom cabinets for everyone who wants to have an ideal bathroom should use such cabinets to keep their make up and saving kits.
Organizing gives much space to your bathroom cabinets, and while keeping it tidy will save you time looking for things.