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By 1988 we had got as lot done at Ellenroad. The engines were ready to steam regularly for the public and I started doing this in summer. My problem was that I was the only person who could do it. For 18 months I ran the engines every weekend, year round, except for Christmas and New Year. I don't think anybody realises to this day what hard work this was, I was working seven days a week and putting in an average of 100 hours. I knew this couldn't go on and called for volunteers from the Friends organisation to attend a course at the engine house during which I gave them a basic grounding in the history, design, principles and day to day management of steam boilers and engines in general and Ellenroad in particular.
I forget now how long the course was I think it was about six months. We finished it by dividing the volunteers into teams and they ran the engine with me supervising. I gradually got to the stage by late 1989 where I could leave them on their own. I've always said that apart from getting the engines back in steam, this was the best piece of work I did while I was at Ellenroad. In effect, I made myself redundant once the heroic bit was done!
Embedded in the training of the volunteers was one historic moment for which I claim full and absolute credit. There were two ladies on the course who were very interested in the engine, Joan Smith from Northwich and Thelma Pollitt from Manchester. They were very good students and really took it all in. When I felt that they had reached the stage where they were ready for action I arranged for them to meet me at the engine house and run the engine with me, exactly as we had done several times before..
On the day appointed when they turned up at the engine house early in the morning I told them the bad news. They were running the engine on their own! I would follow them round and keep an eye on them but they were going to do it all on their own. I've seldom seen two women nearer to flight syndrome in my life! However, they soon got used to the idea and started by lighting the boiler. I'll admit that the hoppers on the stokers were already full but then the lads used to do that for me anyway.
They never made a mistake and fired up, warmed and oiled the engine, started it and ran it from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon. I told them that as far as I was aware, this was the first time in the history of engineering that two women had run a 3,000hp. engine completely unaided. I was so pleased with them and made sure that they knew it. Funnily enough this didn't go down well at all with the other volunteers. There was already a bit of infighting and jockeying to see who would be top dog, Chief Engineer in their terms, and the injection of competition in the shape of Joan and Thelma triggered off a bad attack of ill-concealed chauvinism. It wasn't just the blokes who were volunteers, I well remember one visitor who was evidently an old engineer telling Joan one day that she ought to be making tea, not running the engine! I don't think he will ever realise how near he was to having his face re-arranged! Joan's day job was as a nurse on violent wards in a mental hospital. I told her, she could do my job but there was no way I could do hers. If ever I call in at Ellenroad and either of these two are there I'm always assured of a warm welcome and it's one of the finest memories I carried away from Ellenroad.
During 1988 I had an enquiry from a firm of developers who were building a large shopping centre in the middle of Rochdale for the CWS. They wanted to have some sort of dramatic centre piece in the centre and had got their eye on a preserved engine in a modern house at the top of the town. They wanted my advice on moving and installing the Whitelees Beam Engine.
In 1841/42 John Petrie, engine maker of Whitehall Street, Rochdale, built a 20nhp beam engine for John Hurst at Whitelees Mill, Littleborough at a cost of £650. It ran successfully under various owners until 1942 and, apart from a steel flyshaft replacing the original cast iron one, was never modified. In 1957 the Co-operative Wholesale Society were owners of the mill which was weaving blankets at the time. They wanted the engine out to give room for expansion and Holcroft Limited of Rochdale who's foundry was on the site of the original Petrie works offered to build an engine house and erect the engine there as a monument to Rochdale engineering. It was powered by an electric motor and could be run for the public on special occasions. The engine house was glass-fronted and Rochdalians got used to seeing the engine sat there on the side of the road.
Things remained like this until 1988 when the owners of the foundry, Reynolds Gears, decided to close the works and re-develop the site as a retail barn. The engine would have to go. It was not scheduled or protected in any way and therefore was up for grabs. The people building the Wheatsheaf Centre heard about it and decided they would like it for their showpiece. It was at this point that someone told them they ought to talk to me before they made any irrevocable decisions.
I went to meet them and pointed out that they couldn't just plonk it on the floor and put an electric motor on it. The first problem was getting it out, it was next to the road but as this was a busy major route it made it inaccessible from that side. Further, they would need a pit twelve feet deep underneath it and then a clear thirty feet above. It soon became clear to them that this was a bit more than they had bargained for. They asked me to come up with alternatives and I eventually found them a large wood saw built in Rochdale by Tommy Robinsons, a deep well pump headgear and a small steam engine to couple up to the pump. They settled on this and I arranged for the whole lot to be refurbished and installed by the Rochdale Apprentice Training School. All this took time but was completely successful.
As soon as I knew that the Co-op weren't going to take the engine I had a word with Peter Dawson and we sketched out a preliminary scheme for installing the engine in the bare space in the boiler house where the other Lancashire boilers had been. I also approached the Science Museum and English Heritage and told them what I wanted to do and asked their opinion.
At this point I should explain that English Heritage do not consider themselves competent to make judgements about machinery. They rely on the opinion of the Science Museum who, though nominally the minor partner in this process, actually hold ultimate power on funding decisions. I was astounded when they turned the idea down on the grounds it would dilute the 'purity of the concept' at Ellenroad. I couldn't understand their reasoning and no matter how I pressed them couldn't get them to reconsider. I was baffled.
Then I got a letter from David Sekers at Quarry Bank informing me that he had got the Whitelees Engine and was going to install it at Styal. The letter included the phrase 'Ha Ha, we've got it!' I also found that David had used a selective quotation out of a private letter which he had obtained as supporting evidence for his case to move the engine. All this bothered me. For a start there was no need for supporting evidence as the engine wasn't protected in any way by the Ancient Monument Acts. Secondly I knew there were close links between Quarry Bank and the Science Museum and I can't believe that David would consider installing the engine without informing them first. It all smelt to me of discussions in closed rooms and a fait accompli. I have to admit I lost my temper and I'm not ashamed of it. I wrote David a controlled but venomous letter and copied this to the Science Museum and English Heritage. I heard later that photocopies of it had been put on various notice boards in English Heritage and had caused some amusement.
My next move was to contact John Pierce and inform him that Rochdale was being burgled and what was he going to do about it. My case was that the engine had been brought back to the town as an example of Rochdale engineering and, even though nothing was ever committed to paper, it was obvious that the Co-op and Holcrofts had intended Rochdale to be its final home. Further, I wasn't at all sure that Reynolds actually owned the engine or had the right to give it away. I had an idea that if the matter was traced back to its roots, the Co-operative Wholesale Society were still the legal owners of the engine. John didn't let me down, he went off and did what he was best at, I was never consulted and to this day I don't know what he did but the upshot was that Trevor Grice, the CEO of Reynolds informed David Sekers that the deal was off. I was asked to come up with a scheme to install the engine in a glass case outside the Town Hall but I got the impression that apart from the practicalities of this scheme, it was never seen as a viable alternative to installing it at Ellenroad in steam. I was also led to understand that in any dispute with any of the funding bodies, I would most likely get backing from the council. None of this was on paper but it was right up my street.
In January 1989 I did a report for the council that shot the glass case down and then I made a convincing case for installing it at Ellenroad in steam. The next I heard was that Reynolds would give the engine to the Trust and if we could get it out within ten working days they would give us approximately £30,000 as a donation. The exact amount depended on how successful they were in reclaiming tax on the donation. At this point I raised the matter of the ownership of the engine. I pointed out that there were three levels of proof of ownership in law. These were possession, title and provenance. Possession was with Reynolds, I suspected title was with the Co-op and they would have records of purchase that could prove provenance, or in other words, the audit trail. I said that what we needed was a letter from the Co-op which acknowledged that we had the engine and devolved any residual rights they had in it to us. In other words we would have all three elements of ownership and this could never be questioned. I went for this because in my years with museums I have come across so many cases where a museum had artefacts which they couldn't actually prove belonged to them. John Pierce agreed with me and set in motion the machinery for getting us the documentation from the Co-op. Having done this, I could get going, I was, to put it mildly, in my element. I went down, had a look at the rabbit, arranged for access and went away to lay my plans.
My first move was to get hold of Duncan Smith, an excellent millwright I knew at Huddersfield and set him on to help me dismantle the engine. We started straight away and took the engine to pieces inside the house. Norman Sutcliffe was demolishing the foundry and I had a word with him and made sure he could carve a way through to the engine house so we could get near it with a crane and wagon. After seven working days we had the engine in pieces but still had the problem of getting it out of the house. I found out afterwards that a lot of people were watching me and Duncan and were trying to work out how we were going to do it. With only three days to go things were looking bleak to the observers but then I put plan 'A' into operation.
I'd looked at the building very carefully and had made up my mind what to do. On the day, a crane with a 120 feet jib arrived on the site. My compressor and two jackhammers were lifted on to the roof and Duncan and I started cutting out the first Bison Beam in the roof. The roof was constructed as a flat roof formed by hollow concrete beams laid across from wall to wall. These are know as Bison beams. Once we had cut the first one out all we had to do was cut a hole in each end of the next beam, attach chains and lift the beam out like a rotten tooth. There was a bit of damage as we tore the beams out, bits of the parapet were dropping near the road but nothing to worry about. By shortly after lunch we had the roof off and started to load all the small pieces on to a wagon. We took these to Ellenroad and got them under cover.
The following day I had the biggest low loader I could find on site and we lifted all the large pieces out and got the whole engine on in one load. By four o'clock in the afternoon we had the wagon and crane at Ellenroad. It was siling down with cold rain and dark but we decided to get it unloaded. I slipped the driver £50 as a backhander, he rang his wife, one of the lads went for fish and chips and we had the lot off by nine o'clock, all under cover and the doors closed. I can tell you that I went home that night, had a shower and a fair dose of single malt. We had the engine and, when they had sorted the tax out, the £30,000!
We have to move forward now to November 1991 in order to follow the Whitelees story to its conclusion. In the interim, we had kept the engine parts dry and oiled, I had found a drawing of the engine by Frank Wightman of Stretford and Peter had drawn up a scheme which sited the engine in such a way that we could install a mezzanine floor, a lift and a walk way through the engine to give access to the main engine house. All this was based on the original plan which was to have the external services. This was a very complicated piece of design and Peter did a brilliant job. We had to have it right to an inch in order to do things like give headroom on the walkway and room to manoeuvre wheel chairs. The whole scheme was based on my measurements of the engine parts. I had to do it this way because the measured survey that the council; had done for me of the original engine had been lost by the Planning Department when the surveyor who did the drawings left for a new job! Frank's drawing wasn't accurate enough to trust. We got to the stage where the design was done and I met Peter in his office.
You're not going to believe what I did next but Peter can vouch for it! We looked over the drawings one last time. I looked at Peter and said "Will you do one last thing for me?" He looked at me askance, I think he sensed something was coming, we knew each other too well! "Yes, what is it?" "Make the pit a foot deeper." "Why?" I told him I didn't know, I had a funny feeling and all I could say was that it would be easier to pour a foot of concrete in than dig a foot out. This made sense to Peter and so we did it!
By October 1991 we had gone out to tender for the pit, decided on a contractor, signed up with him and we were waiting for him to, start. He was a week late and I went off for a week on Eigg leaving Graham Riley in charge. I got back on the following weekend and was in early on Monday morning. I went into the boiler house and found the most dreadful mess I have ever seen in my life! There was a jagged gash across the floor, protruding out of it were various bits of scaffolding pole and the edge of a sheet of plywood. This was bad enough but when I looked closely I saw that the hole was full of set concrete to within six inches of the top. I couldn't believe it, I went into the hut and had just brewed up when Graham arrived. "Have you seen it?" he said. I said, "Sit down, tell me all about it." So he did, and what a sorry tale it was!
The contractor had arrived on site on Monday morning and Graham said he was worried from the start. He said they didn't seem to be very sure about what they were doing. They started to cut the floor and when they had opened up a narrow trench, started digging by hand. This was according to the scheme of work we had set out but they were being far too cautious and were digging too narrow a trench. At about four feet they hit running sand and water and panicked. They tried to hold it back with the plywood and scaffold poles and when this didn't work, they poured cement on the trench. At this point Graham had the sense to stop them and call Peter Dawson. Peter came up, took one look and said "This is a job for Stanley!" He told the contractor to go away until he was called for.
Being El Supremo is heady stuff and most of the time it was great fun but every now and then a decision drops in your lap which has to be dealt with and there is only one good answer, the right one. This situation was a classic example and was just one of many I had to take while running the project. We had made a promise to deliver the Whitelees Engine in steam at Ellenroad the following May and it would be tremendously damaging if we didn't fulfil our promise. The botched trench in the floor of the boiler house was only the tip of the iceberg, this was only one part of a very complicated problem and as I sat there with my cup of tea in the site hut I had to get all the facts marshalled, sort out the priorities and decide what was the best way forward. As Sherlock Holmes once said, 'this is a three pipe problem'. I lit up and pondered.
You'll remember that I mentioned earlier that when Total Oil took over Coates I had approached them and asked them to supply us with oil for the engine free and they agreed. This initial overture had matured over the months and Total, via Coates had become very interested in the engine for PR purposes. After a lot of discussion we came to an agreement which was that when we had the Whitelees engine in steam, Total would host an open day at the engine house. They wanted this to be in May 1992 and a lot of pressure was put on me to agree to this. I knew it was an incredibly short timescale but I also knew that this was a crucial opportunity for the Trust so I took the gamble and agreed. This set in motion a train of events that couldn't be stopped as Total geared up the PR exercise and started to make preparations for the day. Remember, this was in late summer 1991 and all we had was a heap of engine parts and a bare concrete floor.
Apart from the administrative pressures there were some very serious practical problems. We were proposing to dig a hole fourteen feet deep, forty feet long and fifteen feet wide within three feet of the foundations of the engine house and, more importantly, the engine beds of the Ellenroad engine. Further, this hole didn't start at ground level, the floor of the boiler house was six feet lower than ground level before we started. In effect we were going to go down over twenty feet into an alluvial flood plain and nobody knew exactly where the water table was. All I knew for certain was that we were at least ten feet below the level of the River Beal and it was a virtual certainty that we would hit water.
Put like this, I can forgive anybody who is reading this for coming to the conclusion that I was mad! There were plenty of people about who would have agreed with you but to my way of thinking, this wasn't a problem in respect of whether the project was possible, it was simply a difficulty that had to be addressed and a solution found. I had to start from the point where I believed it was possible and we could do it. The first thing to do was think clearly about it. The water was no problem, all that was needed to combat this was a good pump or pumps that would dewater the excavation as fast as water flowed in. The danger, and it was a big danger, was that if we hit pockets of sand in the sub strata, these would become liquid and start to flow until they attained a level. If these sands formed part of the sub strata under the engine house foundations we would. In effect, pull the foundations out from under the building and the engine.
Peter and I had taken all this into consideration when we let the contract out but it was fairly obvious that the contractor had totally mislead us as to his abilities and that we had to have a rethink about everything. I told Peter that we hadn't to get downhearted about what had happened. In effect, we had dug a trial hole and established how serious the problem was. More importantly we had received a warning that our concept of setting a contractor on to excavate and pour a foundation was fundamentally flawed, a normal contractor didn't have the expertise that I needed.
Now then, this is going to sound like a diversion but it isn't, it's a valuable piece of advice! I've always been a nosy bugger, if I see something that intrigues me I always go and ask questions, this is how you learn. Another point, never underestimate the value of serendipity and lateral thinking when you are planning anything. They can be diversions sometimes but occasionally, they help you to come up with innovation and can be very effective.
I was still in the site hut, drinking tea and smoking my pipe. Peter had gone back to his office and Graham was leaving me alone. By the way, don't forget we had a signed contract worth about £25,000 hanging out over the precipice with a contractor who was going to have to be fired! I put that can of worms on one side for the time being and drifted off into deep thought. Another little point, if anybody had come in at that moment they might well have asked themselves what this leader was doing, half asleep in a chair in the corner!
My mind drifted off to Morecambe Bay the previous summer. I had been up there for some reason and noticed a lot of activity out on the sands. A construction gang seemed to be digging holes out in the bay. Nosey bugger syndrome took over and I walked out to look at what they were doing. They were digging a trench in the sand fifteen feet deep and below water level in sand! I got talking to them and asked how the hell they could get away with it. Anyone who has ever dug a hole on the beach knows what happens to sand when you get down to the water table, it goes liquid and unstable, this was exactly the problem we had at Ellenroad. The bloke in charge of the site showed me, they had installed a refrigeration system along each side of the line of the trench and had frozen the sub-strata, this allowed them to dig deep enough to lay the sewage outfall pipe which was the reason for the trench. I was fascinated by this and stored it up in my mind. More to the point, I remembered the name of the firm, MGF from Astley near Manchester.
I picked up the phone and after a few enquiries found myself talking to John Kelly at MGF. I arranged for him to come up to the engine house that afternoon and have a look at the rabbit and then I went down to Rochdale to see Peter.
The conclusion I had come to was that we were looking at the problem in the wrong way, we were thinking in terms of a concrete lined hole ready to drop the engine into. What we really needed was a piece of trench the right size to build the concrete pit in. This hole had to be safe and waterproof in the bottom to allow us to work. I flew this past Peter and told him about John Kelly and he brightened up a bit. Then his face clouded as he remembered the small matter of the contract! He told me that the contractor could take us to the cleaners if he wanted to. I said "Forget about that, it's my problem, I'll go and see the bloke."
I rang the contractor up and he was in his office so I went to see him. I called in at an off-licence and bought a bottle of whisky (which the Trust never got charged for) and thus armed, descended on the unfortunate bloke. He was sat in his office looking very miserable. He cheered up a bit when I plonked the bottle on the table, asked for two glasses and said "We've got things to talk about!"
I'm afraid I didn't have much mercy on him. I started by laying out the facts. He had bitten off more than he could chew. The mess he had left us was a major complication. We had two ways of proceeding, either I invoked the terms of the contract, we went to law, and after spending a fortune on lawyers one of us won and the other lost, or, I gave him a cheque for £1500 and we tore the contract up. It didn't take him long to decide, I gave him the money, he gave me the contract and a letter saying he was withdrawing. I left the bottle on his desk and drove away wondering how I was going to explain this to the Trustees!
Peter arrived at the engine house after lunch and I told him what I had done and gave him the contract and the letter. Remember, this was five hours after first seeing the problem, we had a possible solution, we'd thrown £1500 at a big problem and made it go away and we had a trenching contractor coming in that afternoon. Not a bad morning's work by anybody's standards. Recognise that all this was only possible because I had the power to act, the imprest account and good support. In any normal set up we would have been into a long round of meetings and in the end would have come up with a compromise that probably wouldn't have worked. Actually, if that had been the case I think the Trustees would have jettisoned the project!
John Kelly came and I liked him straight away. He was a big, young, pleasant Irish bloke and he gave every evidence of knowing what he was talking about. Inside two hours we had agreed what we were going to do, set a price and arranged for them to start that week, I think actually it was the following day but am not certain about that.
John didn't see any big problem. What he suggested was that we dig a trial hole right up against the foundations of the house and go down as far as we needed to find out just what was happening. Meanwhile, we opened one of the shutters into the boiler house and make a temporary ramp with rubble so that we could get an excavator and a dump truck into the boiler house. Once we were ready, we would start digging down into the floor over the whole of the area we wanted. We were going to take the hole out in one lump. As the hole went down we would sheet pile it round the outside to protect us and the foundations from cave-in. We couldn't use Larsen piles which are the normal sheet piles that would be used because these would have to be driven by a pile driver and we couldn't have that sort of vibration near the foundations. Anyway, there wasn't enough headroom to take the pile driver. We needed another system.
John had the answer. We would use sheet piles but without the locking flange that sealed Larsen piles. These would be arranged loose but overlapping around the periphery of the hole and would be supported on the inside by a large box section frame that contained hydraulic jacks. The idea was that these could be pressurised and as they expanded they forced the piles against the sides of the excavation. The method of excavation was that the area at the bottom of each pile was dug out by hand until about two feet was clear below the pile. There was a hole in the pile at the foot and the chisel of a pneumatic jack hammer could be used to drive the pile down until it was firmly seated again in the base of the hole. Then the same operation was repeated all round the trench until all the piles were down to the two feet level. At this point the excavator could start to remove the two feet of trench bottom freed up by dropping the piles. The beauty of this was that the only place where sand and water could run was at the point where you were working on the original pile. If this happened it was easy to drive the pile down with the jack hammer and stop the flow. As we got deeper, another reinforcing frame was inserted and so on until we had reached the depth we needed. At this point we would pour 18" of concrete in the hole to anchor the bottom of the piles, take out the bottom frame and shutter up for the wall of the pit. Once the bottom four feet of wall was poured the rest of the frames could be taken off, the piles cut of at ground level and the rest of the pit poured to specification. Nowt to it!
Of course, there was a lot more to it than this but we had the right firm now and work went forward very quickly. There were only three men on the job, the excavator driver, a labourer (He was the most Irish Irishman I have ever come across in my life and a tiger for work!) and Jack the Pit Boss. The latter was a bloke who had been working on the Channel Tunnel and had come out of the job because he said it was too dangerous. We couldn't have had a better man, he knew exactly what he was doing and all the tricks of the trade. His methods were very simple, for instance, we had a pump running all the time draining the hole and the big problem with this is that the water is so dirty, liquid mud in fact, that it would normally choke any centrifugal pump. Jack's answer was simple, on the first day he asked me to get him some bales of hay. Every morning he would put a bed of hay down in the sump and sit the pump on top of it, this acted as a simple filter and the pump could do its job. He used hay as well whenever there was an inrush at the bottom of a pile, he would simply stuff a cake into the site of the inrush, the debris caught in the hay and made its own seal. Problem solved.
There was one other major danger, this was what is known as 'boiling'. What happens is that it is possible to reach a point where the pressure of water from below is enough to break through the material in the bottom of the pit. The effect of this if it happens is that the whole of the bottom of the pit looks as though it is boiling as the water breaks through. I asked Jack about this and he said he didn't think it would happen. As we got further down the material we were working in was boulder clay with isolated pockets of sand. The pockets would boil but Jack reckoned that the strata was strong enough to withstand the pressure and we wouldn't get a big boil. It was good to watch the three of them working together. There wasn't a lot of shouting when we got a minor boil, everyone knew what to do.
The way Jack managed the problem was that while the excavator was working, he always kept about five tons of dry borrow stacked up just to one side. Jack would direct the shovel to where he wanted him to dig and would indicate how much bite he wanted. He was watching the ground all the time. If they hit sand and it started to boil, Jack signalled the driver who dropped the bucket of spoil that had caused the problem to one side, swung round and got a bucket full of dry borrow. While he was doing this the labourer would have grabbed a cake of hay and he and Jack would be dancing on this like dervishes! The excavator then dropped the dry material on the boil and they did this until it was stopped. If it was near the side of the hole Jack would drop the piles close to it before making another attempt. If this didn't cure it he would leave that place and work round it until it had become higher than the rest of the pit bottom, at that stage it could usually be dug out. We never hit a really serious boil and managed to contain all the sand we hit. I asked Jack what he would do if it all boiled and he said "Get out! But there's no problem as long as you can see daylight!" I knew what he meant. There was all the difference in the world between a boil in the Whitelees Pit and one twenty miles out under the Channel!
While the pit was sinking, John Kelly, Peter and I had a look at the plans for the pit. John said he'd like to quote for the concrete work, it was a bit outside their normal brief but he had the equipment and the men and would like to see the job through. We only had one standard to go by, their work on the pit, judging by this we could do worse so we set MGF on to do it. The nice thing was that even with the money I had shelled out to get rid of the original contractor, we were inside the original price. Deep sighs of relief all round.
A word now about the pit itself. The first thing to recognise is that what we were actually doing was building a concrete boat and putting it into possible twelve feet of water in a rainy season. I had some experience of this when Cyril Richardson built a big pit at Little Stainton to hold the slurry from the farm buildings. I told him it was wrong when the contractors built it but he never took any notice. All was well until he emptied the pit in the spring when the water table was high. As they emptied it, the pit floated up out of the ground and cracked! The bottom line is Archimedes's Principle: 'If a body is partly or wholly immersed in a fluid, the up thrust or loss in weight is equal to the amount of water displaced'. In other words, the construction of the pit has to be heavier than the same volume of water. In the case of the Whitelees we used a 100% safety margin. We couldn't give it the weight in the walls because we were short of room so we put a massive concrete collar all round it to locate it and make sure it was far too heavy to float.
In addition, the pit had to be poured very accurately as it had to fit the dimensions of the engine. We couldn't pour it all at once because of the frames and even when we had finished the walls, the central pillar that supported the flyshaft bearing couldn't be cast until its relationship with the walls could be accurately measured. This support had to be accurate to 1/16 of an inch. Another complication is that large amounts of concrete generate considerable heat when it is setting. This raises problems with expansion and contraction which are approximately quantifiable but a lot depends on the skill of the person building the shuttering. John and Peter were reasonably happy with all this so we decided to let the contract out on this basis.
Meanwhile, Jack and his mate had to deal with the mess left by the original contractor. The concrete had to be cut out as the piles went down and I reckon it put another £1000 on the job. Even so, it was a cheap price to pay for good work. As the pit sank the hole looked enormous. It was of course wider, longer and deeper than the finished pit which had to fit inside it. It looked big enough to drop the Ellenroad Engine in and have room to spare! In the end we got the depth, put in a mat of reinforcing steel and poured 18" concrete in the bottom to stabilise the piles. Jack and his mate were finished on the job at this point and there was one funny incident. We had all taken a shine to these two, apart from the fact they were masters of their craft and were getting us out of (or into!) a hole, they were nice blokes. Jack treated his labourer shamefully, he swore at him terribly all the time and I asked the labourer one day why he stood it and never swore back. "He's the boss and while we are in the hole what he says goes. My time comes when we finish!" On the day they finished the labourer got his turn, egged on I have to say by us. He started into Jack and swore at him solid for what seemed like five minutes, Jack never said a word. When it was done, they had a good laugh and a cup of tea and disappeared from our lives. I can't say how much admiration I have for men like that. When all the suits and the shoes have finished managing, blokes like them simply climb into the hole and do the job. Given the choice, I am in the hole with them rather than the conference room.
The next gang that moved in installed the complicated network of reinforcing bars and erected the first lift of shuttering. When all was ready we hired a concrete pump and ordered the mixer wagons. We pumped the first pour in and gave it four days to set then we removed the rest of the hydraulic frames, cut off the pile heads below finished ground level, raised the shuttering and poured the rest in one day. After a week we struck the shuttering and revealed the pit in all its glory. There was a bit of making good to do but very little, it was a wonderful job and definitely rock solid and waterproof.
.There were still two elements of the pit that needed to be done, one was the central pillar for the flyshaft bearing and the other was the cylinder base. I was fairly confident about my measurements but decided to leave these until we had the beam in place and I could do some accurate final measurements. As it turned out, this was a very wise decision! Apart from this, we now had a pit, all we had to do was build the Whitelees Engine!
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One of the community's great nonprofits is celebrating another milestone this weekend.
For 31 years the Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County ReStore has been selling items from building materials, to furniture, to appliances to the general public.
Staff members as well as volunteers help operate the store on West Isabella Street in Salisbury and keep donated merchandise moving in and out of the ReStore.
The store is a busy place worth a visit. In just the past 12 months, 618 customers purchased cabinets, 2,239 electronics items were sold, 4,870 transactions of building materials were made,
and 1,140 chairs were purchased bought by ReStore customers.
Habitat for Humanity ReStores are nonprofit home improvement stores and donation centers that sell new and gently used building materials, furniture, home accessories, and appliances to members of the community at a fraction of the retail price.
The Habitat for Humanity ReStores are proudly owned and operated by local Habitat for Humanity affiliates.
The Habitat for Humanity ReStore on Isabella Street in Salisbury is owned by Habitat for Humanity of Wicomico County, and all proceeds are used to build homes, community, and hope in our neighborhoods.
Items move in and out of the ReStore on a daily basis, with refrigerators, stoves, and a large shipment of display furniture the most recent "hot-ticket" items to arrive in stock. Savvy shoppers know to visit the store frequently to get the best bargains.
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Calling healthcare a "basic human right" may make an advocate feel more politically virtuous and caring. Nevertheless, the phrase oversimplifies and stunts the necessary debate remaining over how our healthcare system should and could operate better.
The rights-based approach to healthcare reform remains wrong as a matter of U.S. law, history, politics and economics. We can do better than just recycle another round of these empty words.
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BUCHEON, South Korea — Kim Se-rin is sure he'll recognize his sister when they reunite "" if they reunite "" in North Korea this week, more than 63 years after war drove them apart. And he knows what he'll say.
"I will first hug her and tell her that I thank her for having lived so long," the 84-year-old retired Seoul City official said. "Then, I will ask her when our father and mom passed away and when our sister and brother died."
What Kim doesn't know is what he'll do if their reunion "" one of hundreds planned Thursday through Tuesday between North and South Koreans "" falls victim to the ever-volatile relations between the two countries. Kim, who has chronic heart problems, got sick after North Korea abruptly scrapped reunions in September, and he hasn't slept well since.
"I think this will be my last chance," Kim said during an interview at his home in Bucheon, just west of Seoul. "How much longer can I live?"
Kim and about 500 other South Koreans plan to visit the North's scenic Diamond Mountain resort to take part in reunions that will reunite relatives for the first time since the bloody Korean War ended with an armistice in 1953. More than 260 North Koreans are expected to take part. No reunions have been held since late 2010, and if these meetings take place, it will be a positive sign for inter-Korean relations and a tearful relief to families separated by the world's most heavily fortified border.
The rival nations struck a deal last week to go ahead with brief meetings of war-divided families, though there's wariness in Seoul that Pyongyang could back out again. It is an intensely anxious moment for the elderly Koreans waiting to take buses to Diamond Mountain, still not assured that they will be able to see long-lost relatives' faces before they die.
"I was really shocked last time when North Korea canceled the reunions. My health condition has worsened because of the stress from the cancellation," 85-year-old Lee Geun-su said Monday. He had planned to go to North Korea to see his younger sister, but on Wednesday, South Korea's Unification Ministry announced that he was too ill to go.
North Korea is pushing for better ties with South Korea, and has ratcheted down harsh rhetoric that swelled last spring with a torrent of threats to launch nuclear strikes against Seoul and Washington. Analysts say the North hopes better relations with Seoul will attract badly needed foreign investment and aid.
There is still a risk the reunions could be scrapped. The North earlier threatened to cancel the reunions due to upcoming annual military exercises between Seoul and Washington, which North Korea calls a rehearsal for invasion. Pyongyang also has previously cited critical South Korean news reports as a reason to distrust Seoul.
Millions of Korean families have been completely separated since the war. Both governments ban their citizens from visiting each other or even exchanging letters, phone calls and emails. During a previous period of inter-Korean rapprochement, about 22,000 Koreans have had brief reunions "" 18,000 in person and the others by video.
In 2000, South Korea created a computerized lottery system for South Koreans hoping for reunions, and since then nearly 130,000 people, most in their 70s or older, have entered. Only about 70,000 are still alive.
Those selected for the aborted reunions in September get another chance this week. However, two of the South Koreans selected and three of North Koreans have died since then, according to South Korea's Red Cross, which is helping arrange the meetings along with its North Korean counterpart.
Time has already robbed Kim of the chance to reunite with his parents and two of the siblings he left behind on Dec. 4, 1950, six months after the Korean War broke out. Red Cross officials told him that only his 79-year-old sister Kim Yong Suk is still alive, though he also is expected to meet a son of his brother.
Now a frail, gray-haired octogenarian, Kim had taught Korean at a middle school in Hwangju, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Pyongyang, and his sister was among his students. She was smart and pretty with thick, bobbed hair, and Kim remembers a fellow teacher who jokingly asked to marry her after graduation.
"She resembles me. We will recognize each other when we reunite," he said, smiling.
Kim said he fled his homeland with two friends because they worked for an anti-communist organization and were afraid of being caught by the North Korean authorities. He said he left in such a rush that he couldn't even tell his family members about his departure, and he had no idea how permanent his decision would be.
"I thought I could have dropped by my home … I didn't know (the separation) would last this long," Kim said.
Kim joined the South Korean army after fleeing to the South, and said he thought seriously about death during fierce battles with Chinese soldiers. China intervened in the war to help North Korea, while the American-led U.N. forces fought alongside South Korea.
He said young Chinese soldiers got drunk on kaoliang, a fiery, throat-burning liquor, then climbed a hill in human-wave attacks, aiming their recoilless rifles squarely at the office of the South Koreans' battalion commander. "So many people died," he said.
He said huge numbers of Chinese soldiers were wiped out by bombs dropped by American B-29 bombers. "A reservoir turned into a pool of blood because it rained and mixed with blood from the corpses," he said.
Kim thought then that it would be his destiny to die in the South, away from his hometown. That has not changed: "I've told my grandchildren to move and bury my remains next to my parents' at our family gravesite after the unification."
He said that if he meets his sister, he will at least be able to pass on a message to his parents in the meantime.
"I'll ask her to go to the graveyard for our parents to say that she met me and that I've been living well in South Korea, because I cannot go there, and this reunion will be our last meeting," Kim said. "I will feel very relieved then."
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According to The New York Times, HSBC is about to make some noise in noisy New York, by buying out all the ad space in an entire issue of New York Magazine.
Given the recent turmoil in the banking industry, one could see it as a case of bad timing. Is the American public really in the mood for an aggressive marketing pitch from a bank right now?
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ROCKERS Attica Rage have been touted as one of the most exciting metal bands in the UK after a blistering show at one of the country"s top rock festivals.
And the lads will be hoping to continue on the crest of the wave as they release their first single this week.
The band, which features Kilwinning brothers Jonny Parr and Richie Rage in the line-up, were taking part in Metal Hammer and Hard Rock Hell"s Hammerfest held in Wales last month.
And despite being in a line up which featured massive names from the rock world like Saxon, Sepultura and Opeth, Attica were the one band on many fans" lips after the event.
On the festival"s official forum the group was regularly mentioned as the hottest new band to be playing at the event.
And many more saw them as simply being one of the best bands at Hammerfest.
One wrote: 'A few bands really stood out for me - Opeth, Alestorm, Skindred, Attica Rage and Saxon are the ones that immediately spring to mind!' Another added: 'Bands of the weekend for me were Sepultura and Attica Rage!' Guitarist Stephen Bell said: 'We were blown away by the turnout for such an early slot. Just shy of 900 according to Jonny. That was amazing!' The band release the single 'Dark City' through their own label Vanduara Records this week, the first release from their album 'Ruin Nation'.
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SAN DIEGO - The Pentagon released the names Friday of two CampPendleton-based lance corporals killed in combat over the last weekin the Al Anbar region of Iraq.
Philip Martini, 24, of Cook County, Ill., died of a gunshotwound Saturday, according to the Department of Defense.
On Wednesday, a makeshift bomb killed Lance Cpl. Marcus Glimpse,22, of Huntington Beach, the DOD reported.
Martini, a rifleman, and Glimpse, a mortarman, were members ofthe 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, IMarine Expeditionary Force Forward.
Each was the recipient of a Global War on TerrorismExpeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal,Humanitarian Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, CombatAction Ribbon and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon.
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Iman Shumpert's monster dunk highlight of series: 'I've seen it quite a few times'
GREENBURGH, N.Y. - Iman Shumpert knows how to make a statement.
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Take his fashion sense -- oversized glasses, oversized bow tie, large colored shoes -- which is sort of a unique combination of geek-chic and circus clown.
Shumpert obviously isn't afraid of drawing attention to himself, so perhaps it's only appropriate that he produced the statement dunk of the Knicks-Pacers playoff series.
You've surely seen the replay by now: Shumpert flying through the lane, reaching way back with his right arm to grab a rebound off Chris Copeland's missed shot and finishing with a screaming slam.
Shumpert himself admits to viewing it repeatedly in the first 24 hours after the Knicks' 105-79 win in Game 2 Tuesday. It was the No. 1 play on "SportsCenter" that night.
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Following about ten days of malicious and extraordinary insanity, my wife and I were finally able get a hold a moment where we could relax. My beautiful bride had the joyous and uncanny idea of visiting my favorite pub, Gaslight Brewery. The Gaslight, as we call it, is located a block northeast of the South Orange train station and west of Scotland Avenue. It's a big place with a very good selection of bottled Belgian beers, German beers, ciders, and meads. The pub is a minuscule stroll from my favorite Comic Book store, so it?s fundamentally ideal!
We ordered the fish-n-chips that day, which I had with the pub's Bulldog Blonde, a Golden or Blonde Ale. It is one of their standards, but a very good brew. It has a fantastic golden color with a slight sweetness to it, lightly malty, with a small hoppy taste and a great light aroma. A good starter but not the star of the evening.
My second beer for the evening, the beer that brought a tear to my eye, that actually lived up to its name was Gaslights Perfect Stout. It?s a Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout and here is what I think of it.
Smell after brought to table– There was just a great aroma which had a great hoppiness to it without being overpowering.
Appearance– This was just a really good looking stout. It was as black as a moonless cloudy night sky, with a nice dense contrasting nitro head on the top. A perfect Guinness commercial pales in comparison to the sight of this beer.
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Alcohol: This beer was subtle in it?s alcohol, I could drink it all night.
Pairings: Pairing with food, well this is a hard one for me, I would like this with roast chicken and some steamed veggies and if with a dessert, a piece of Coffee Cake or a Chocolate Cheese Cake would work for me.
Comic Pairings: I would Pair this with DC comics: Final Crisis : Revalations Written by Greg Rucka; Art by Philip Tan, Jeff De Los Santos and Jonathan Glapion; Covers by Philip Tan. In issue #1 With the end of creation nigh, Crispus Allen must embrace his role as The Spectre by exacting God's vengeance on some of the DC Universe's most vile sinners. But even as Allen struggles with his duty, a new threat is arising ? one that only his former partner, Renee Montoya, a.k.a. The Question, can help him fight! And in issue #2 The Question's been marked for death by The Spectre! How will Renee escape the grasp of the Spirit of Vengeance? Can either of them stop the immortal Vandal Savage once he has the Spear of Destiny? Plus, the return of Batwoman! A dark book with smooth art, goes great with this Perfect Stout.
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Check in was quick and easy and the reception staff were all very friendly. Beds were comfortable, rooms were clean.
Location, modern, friendly staff and cleaniness. Great roof top bar also.
It was an amazing atmosphere and it was truly a blessed experience
Recommend , nice and close to the train station , air con is super cold
The room smelt like stale smoke. Everything else way nice
Nothing fancy but every thing necessary for a comfortable stay is covered..Been staying with ibis since they took over from formula One (6-7yrs) and will stay many more times...Thankyou
Very friendly helpful staff. Good location, easy to get to.
The hotel is located in a well renovated building close to Bourke Street mall and the Financial Services district.
Staff where wonderful. Everything was wonderful . Would come back anytime and can't say enough to anyone who wants to go.
It was an amazing atmosphere and it was truly a blessed experience
The rooms were clean and bright. Big rooms and staff were happy and helpful.
The TV in the room was very poor quality. It was slow changing stations, it was slow loading every time and the picture quality was poor. There were very limited fox stations and a few sporting events i was looking forward to watching while i stayed there were not available.
The cabin we stayed had all basic conveniences, it was dated but it was at the low end of the range. Bed was very comfortable but pillows where not good. We would definitely go back to this location but pick a cabin in the higher range.
the reception department were very obliging and helpful. the unit was small but adequate
Good clean room plenty. Close to flagstaff gardens and vic market. Would stay again.
Awesome couple nights here. Easy check in. Friendly staff. Awesome city views. $25 parking pn. . Close enough to 2 walk into city. Will be my go to for melb stays.
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- The Local Government Area of Armidale has a population of 25,000.
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Merck chose International Women's Day' as the day that they launch their 'Merck STEM for Girls and Women' program for the first time in Liberia. This also included the launch of the Merck More than a Mother program in Liberia.
"Today we are recognizing the International Women's Day by starting this very critical campaign for Liberia with the aim to empower an under-privileged segment of women. Women who couldn't bear children and for this they are discriminated and mistreated by their husbands, families and communities. In some cultures, childless women still suffer discrimination, stigma and ostracism. This is unacceptable and has to change through our campaign," said Rasha Kelej, Chief Social Officer, Merck Healthcare.
The STEM Project launched by Merck will be the first external support Victoria Tolbert School in Liberia gets since their establishment by the President of Liberia, Hin. Ellen Sirleaf, for underprivileged and vulnerable girls.
"As a Ministry we have made a decision to collaborate with 'Merck More than a Mother' to help these women so that they are not stigmatized and discriminated against just because they are infertile and so that they can be empowered to become productive members of society. We also decided to partner with 'Merck STEM' program to empower our girls in STEM. This program is very important for Liberia and Her Excellency President of Liberia, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is very interested to make this program a great success," said Julia Cassell, Liberia's Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection.
'Merck More than a Mother' was first implemented in Kenya in 2015 followed by Uganda, Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire and Central African Republic in 2016. In Liberia both 'Merck More than a Mother' and 'Merck STEM' program are in partnership with the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.Share this via:


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- Black Tuesday Mix: Half Love
Songs of reluctance and regret by Bettye LaVette, Etta James, Sam Cooke, Ben E King, Deer Tick, Ann Peebles, Frankie Beverly, Arcade Fire, Arthur Lee & Love, Bonnie Prince Billie, Chocolate Genius, Larry Banks, Bilal, D'Angelo, Broken Social Scene, and so on and so forth.
This was originally supposed to be a kind of anti-Valentine's Day mix about love lost, but I lost the plot half way through putting it together and decided to scrap it. My friend Jeroen just put out a superior Valentine's Day mix called 'Rappers need love too'. I've had that on repeat for the past couple of days and the pressure from it made me give this a second shot. Here it is. Hope you like.
Expensive Jewelry – Half Love
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Deer Tick – Art isn't real
Timmy Thomas – Why can't we live together
Frankie Beverly & Maze – Joy and pain
Arcade Fire – Ocean of noise
Bettye LaVette – Let me down easy
Etta James – Almost persuaded
Sam Cooke – Lost and lookin'
Ben E King – It's all over
Arthur Lee & Love – Signed DC
Bonnie Prince Billie – I see a darkness
Chocolate Genius – My mom
Larry Banks – I'm not the one
Bilal – How come you don't call me anymore?
D'Angelo – Shit, damn, motherfucker
Broken Social Scene – Pitter patter goes my heart
Ann Peebles – I can't stand the rain
OV Wright – Let's straighten it out
Little Boy Blues – Seed of love


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On today's show: Jt's shares the back story behind the F-16 crash in Arizona killing pilot Brig. Gen. Rasid Mohammed Sadiq. Our quick take on Don Trump and the presidential nominees. DOD Warrior Games. - Marine Crops comes out on top for the only event that matters. … [Read more...]
Good Kill: The Future of Air Power
Today, I came across a jewel. It was the breathtaking movie trailer for Good Kill. The trailer was posted on random social media sites, so I am somewhat positive you have come across it. And, you may already have your opinion about it; here is mine. The Trailer The movie, … [Read more...]
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- Archived Dialogue Projects and Bios to be deleted from website
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- Time to GetOnBoard for Better Transit!
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Power of Youth Leadership Awards
- Canadian Youth Business Foundation Hiring Project Manager
- Ethical Deal Is Recruiting
- Integrated Care Advocacy Is Hiring a Part-time Coordinator
- 2013 Taiwanese Film Festival, Nov 29
- Warren Gill Memorial Lecture – Own Your City, Dec 6
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
'We are BC' – Show us your (working) life video submissions
July 17-August 15 'We Are BC' – Show us your (working) life video submissions SFU Public Square is building a video portrait of BC's economic life: a collage of your stories and ideas on work and money. We're … Continue reading
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City Conversation: Is More Housing the Only Priority?
Thursday, August 1 City Conversations: Is More Housing the Only Priority? Time: 12:30-1:30pm Place: Rm. 1600, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St. Cost: Free Vancouver's city council has successfully been creating new rental and affordable housing, a popular promise it … Continue reading
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Rainbow Refugee Discussion Forum
Rainbow Refugee Discussion Forum – Queer Migration and Homing: A g/local world cafe dialogue Sunday July 28, 5:00-7:00 PM Free Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Speakers: Tehseen A. (Rainbow Refugee), Chris Morrissey (Rainbow Refugee), Dai … Continue reading
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Gauging Games Engagement
Hi. We're the Gauging Games project. Students from digital media and video gaming, with backgrounds as diverse as international policy, economics, comparative philosophy and competitive rowing, started thinking about values in and learned from gaming. Brock and Dave wanted to … Continue reading
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Vancouver to host Reconciliation week in September
Check out this article on Straight.com about Reconciliation Week in Vancouver and the many events that will be happening http://www.straight.com/news/404506/vancouver-set-host-reconciliation-week-september
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Chief Robert Joseph feature in the Vancouver Sun
Chief Robert Joseph talks about truth and reconciliation in this article by Daphne Bramham. http://www.vancouversun.com/Hardship+hope+catalyze+desire+reconciliation/8690022/story.html SFU President Andrew Petter invites all SFU students, staff, faculty, alumni, family and friends to join him at the Vancouver Public Library on September 22 … Continue reading
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Reading may not be a big town, but it does have a lot of interesting places to visit while you are in town. Whether you are visiting Reading or looking for something to do, Bob Fisher Chevrolet wants you to be able to stay entertained.
See a Fighting Phils game: All season long, you can come out and watch the Reading Phillies play. It is exciting to watch a baseball game in person, but many times, especially for people who are not huge baseball fans, the games are boring and last forever. With the Fighting Phils, there are a lot of breaks with family fun thrown in. The kids can venture to see the mascots and get their autograph for free. It happens almost every inning. There are a lot of food vendors and even a play area where you can get tickets for the kids to play games. There is even a sumo wrestler contest. Tickets are far less than a regular major league game, so there is no worry about wasting the money,
Dorney Park and Wild water Kingdom: This is one of the best places on earth. Ok, maybe an overstatement but it sure is fun. Lots of rides, water parks, and lots and lots of food. Around Halloween, there is even frightfest.
Carsonia Lake: This small neighborhood park offers a relaxing day for anyone who comes to play. It is a great place to have a picnic, play on the playground or just let kids run around.
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum: The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum helps to preserves, restores and operates historical aircraft. The main emphasis is on regional models. There is a collection ranging from bombers, transports and military trainers, to helicopters, experimental planes, and classic airliners. All of the aircraft are displayed in the Museum's vast hangar.
Welkinweir: This 197 acre natural space feature 55 acres of arbotetum, and has a diverse habitat, filled with wetlands, meadows, and woodlands. The area is also available for special events.
Visit the Pagoda: The Pagoda offers gorgeous views of the town below. With unique architecture, this is a fun place to see. Climb to the top for a gorgeous view.
Besides these things to do in Reading, Reading isn't that far from Philadelphia or the Poconos, adding a lot more to see in and when in Reading.


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Not a lot of action on yesterday's post, so I don't think the winner will advance any farther . . . But, in any case, I'll call it for Carlin based on Jonathan's amusing babble of postmodernist commentary.
As for today: What can you say? A great pairing to close out the second round of our competition. I'm guessing Waters would be better speaker—who knows what condition Garland would be in?
But then there's this, from an interview with Waters:
I remember the funniest thing, seeing Judy Garland walking down the street with ten thousand gay people following her like the Pied Piper. She went into the little A-House. She was dead drunk, in bad shape, having fun, wearing a big hat. It was like the Virgin Mary appearing, a Miracle. Imagine: Judy Garland LIVE ON COMMERCIAL STREET!
Imagine: Judy Garland LIVE ON 116 STREET!
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known professionally as Tim Allen, is an American comedian, actor, voice-over artist and entertainer. He is known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement...oh wait, no, that's the other guy...
A man of similar worldwide acclaim, our Tim Allen is a man of many hats. Sometime leader of nations, Tim's purview is that razor's edge where the technical meets the real world.
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Nick Denton's New Yorker Profile–The Video Version (Bonus! One Paragraph Version, Too)
The New Yorker's new profile of Nick Denton isn't behind the magazine's pay wall. So when you have time, you should read the whole thing. It's good!
If you're in a hurry, though, you can get a good sense of Denton, at least in present tense, via this clip. It's an abridged version of my onstage chat with the Gawker Media founder at an Interactive Advertising Bureau event last month, and the editors have done a nice job of distilling it down to seven minutes. Bonus for you guys: This thing is so well-edited that I don't appear in a single frame.
And if you're in a real hurry, here's the money quote, which I extracted from Denton by asking him if he thinks what Gawker does is "journalism":
In the U.S., traditional media has killed itself. And it's provided a great opportunity for organizations like us, because they have cared too much about the journalism, about the Pulitzers, about the respect of their peers–and too little about the entertainment of their readers."
If you're looking for more detail from our talk, which included Denton lavishing praise on Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs but refusing to shed any light on the Gizmodo/iPhone 4 case, check out David Kaplan's summary at PaidContent.


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Day 5 in KL – Trip to Melaka
Wednesday.. our trip to the Historical City..Melaka… Our journey started at 9.00 am.. we reached there around 11.00 am..if i am not mistaken… My Brother in-law was our tourist guide and driver on that day..thanks Patrick.
Our first destination….We climbed up the of St. Paul's Hill where the St. Paul's Church is situated, once the prayer house of the Portuguese Catholics, then turned into burial ground for their noble dead by the Dutch. The tombstones have Latin and Portuguese inscriptions on them. St. Francis Xavier was buried here in 1553 before his body was moved to Goa in India… check out melaka.net.
I was reluctant to climb at first because of my father in law but he did not give up… lol… the weather was hot.. we were sweating… but kids having so much fun.. climbing up and down the stairs…
Resting for a while… took our brunch…by then i can't hardly walk.. mummy so tired… in the shopping complex i admired a few unique tv stands that was on sale.. mmm.. anyway we walked to the 'revolving Gyro Tower'… Menara Taming Sari.. its quite a long distance.. phew.
The ticket price were reasonable… my father in-law decided to stay on the ground while all of us enjoy the ride… at first i thought my kids would get nervous but instead they were enjoying more than i do…i am scared of height.. odoi..bikin malu..
Everybody were tired…bought souvenirs …went to St. Francis Xavier Church.. and drove back home… we reach home at 5.00pm… enough for a day… we enjoyed the trip.. and got our good rest at night.


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