#street paving

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"ADVOCATED WOOD BLOCK PAVEMENTS," Kingston Daily Standard. December 17, 1913. Page 8. --- Paving Expert Addressed Board of Trade. --- H. L. Collier, of St. Louis, Mo., Presented Some Strong Arguments Last Night. ---- The members of the Board of Trade at last night's meeting were favored with an excellent address on the paving question by a well-known expert. Mr. H. L. Collier of St. Louis, Mo., who has had a large experience on the paving question, both in connection with. the United States government and in private capacities with a number of large American firms and cities in the Republic.

Mr. Collier went into his life work in regard to the question of street paying, which, he said, was attracting great attention in all the cities of the world. He gave a large number of statistics regarding wood block pavements, and claimed that their superiority could not be overestimated. The advantages of their use for paving he summed up as follows: Resistance to wear, dustlessness, noiselessness, non storing and non-radiating of heat, and ease of cleaning. These advantages would commend them to general use.

The lecture was listened to with great attention and at its close a number of questions were asked by members.

In answer to Mr. J. M. Campbell, Mr. Collier stated that wood blocks would stay down against a "T" rail as long as any other type, provided they were put down properly.

Ald Fair also asked where there had been success obtained with the blocks against a "T" rail, and in reply Mr. Collier instanced a number of cities in the Southern States, where they had been used.

A vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Collier for his able and instructive address.

[mollysunder]

I know people have tried using Caitlyn's map to understand Piltover and Zaun's geography, but I think Silco's map in Zaun offers a better view. When you piece together the brief shots of Silco's own map, including after Jinx vandalized it, you can make out more details in Piltover.

For example, in the area designated as Upper Piltover, there's a yellow highlighted path called Gold Way in parenthesis that leads to the Council's building. Upper Piltover likely most likely contains the Blue Wind Court, the district home to the wealthiest families in Piltover.

If you tie all the shots of Silco's map together, you get something like this. I find it interesting that Silco's map shows that there's two smaller bridges that connect Zaun and Piltover across the river. They don't appear as prominent the main bridge, they might even be in disrepair, but they are present on a Silco's map chose to keep. Are these bridges no go zones for Zaunite trade? Are they smaller commuter corridors perpetually out of service? Who knows, at least we know they exist now, and so does Jinx.

Someone made a cleaner version of the map for an rpg site. The map mixes Arcane's new geography of the two cities, but still applies old and unconfirmed names for sections of both cities, so it'snot completely accurate. I thought it would be good to include because it gets the shape of the fissures right.

[adeurib]

My husband

[streetmatt]

Still life with paving stones.

By Matti Merilaid.

[robertotullj]

paving

[islab0bila]

Everyone after good omens 2:

[blinkpen]

actually one of the reasons i love NOPE and why it resonated with me so much is that one of its core themes/metaphors is the nature of spectacle and the act of consumption, both figurative and literal, the impulse to gawk at horrible things, revel in witnessing something despite- or even because- it is depraved, and examination of the position of being what is witnessed, being consumed, being exploited, to have you and your suffering hungrily looked at, but not seen, and, well, 

i am biased, for reasons,

[fireheartwraith]

The brazilians are very prefeito de cidade pequena mentioning their projects literally every sentence

[sluggoonthestreet]

Sluggo’s Sunday Bath

[skoulsons]

NEW FATHER DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIP JUST DROPPED AND GUESS HOW NORMAL IM BEING OVER THR WHOOOOOOLE THING

normal im being so normal

Will I be posting about them later? ABSOLUTELY

[the-busy-ghost]

In addition to cormorants, seals, and a horse and trap regularly clopping down the high street, this morning I was delighted to discover that my neighbours have employed a goat in their garden

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Reid and Nickle." Daily British Whig (Kingston). May 28, 1913. Page 6. --- Ald. Fair asked that J. F. Reid, the contractor who had done such good work for the city, be heard. The council agreed, and Mr. Reid addressed it. He stated that he was not there to knock any pavement. Every company had some bad pave- ment, and was constantly working to improve quality and workmanship. After fixing several pavements under the company's guarantee, it found that the pavement was too hard, hence it had to be fluxed. The company had been trying to get a pavement suitable to this climate. The limestone dust which goes into the block had to be permeated with asphaltic oil, to overcome the trouble. Brandon was satisfied with the block pavement. In Calgary it had given satisfaction. In Walkerville, after nine years, the block had worn only a quarter of an moh in the busiest street. There was no paving company which did not have bad streets. It all depends upon the method of laying the pavement, Mr. Reid said.

Ald. Ross said that in Toronto he had seen the tearing up of all kinds of pavement.

To Ald. Ross, Mr. Reid said he did not think that the pavement that has been down in Kingston nearly two years had been worn at all.

Ald. Ross said that this was the mportant question. It was Kingston's pavement that had to be considered, and how the blocks were worn-not those in Toronto.

Mr. Reld said he would be glad to take up a few blocks for the Board of Works, and show them just how they were worn.

H. C. Nickle was also asked to address the council, and he told of his visit to Toronto and securing several specimens of worn asphalt blocks which were laid on the track allowance. The blocks he secured were not the blocks against the rails, but from a place that received the least travel.

Mr. Nickle gave some other information concerning asphalt blocks. He and Ald. Fair got into a dispute over a report on road paving issued by the United States department of agriculture, and from which Mr. Nickle stated Ald. Fair, had made a false statement in the press. Ald. Fair borrowed the report from Mr. Nickle and then argued to the council that his statement was correct with regard to asphalt pavement being awarded the highest mark according to efficiency and cost. Mr. Nickle disputed Ald. Fair's interpre tation and then the discussion ended with the vote on the motion to reconsider the tender award, which resulted.

[fort-no-more]

any music-related hot takes?

Mate, I started off as a radio tower illegally broadcasting music that was censored by the BBC. I only have music-related hot takes!

Our take of the day is that anyone who thinks punk must stick to a specific aesthetic is not punk, and it's almost always trying to censor even if they might say it's "preserving" it. (Spoiler: their ideas of "aesthetics" are mostly just, you know... it's saying something awful without saying it because you know how bad it sounds? What's that word again? Is it dogwhistling, or is that something else?)

Mind you, it's not as common now as it was in the 2000s, in part because people were gatekeeping against pop punk (which is a different subgenre, chrise, leave them be) and then reached even further to target actual punk groups, but there was a good chunk of time where geezers who were into the early punk scene would mock any new group for being posers, and most of the time, the people they were pitching a fit about were women, minorities, or young people (ah, yeah, hating on the youth: the most punk thing of all, apparently!) As if British punk would be what it is today without people like Poly Styrene, who basically invented the subgenre of Riot Grrl over a decade before it was recognized and fits into all the groups that are now apparently posers. She'd go on stage with a cute bow in her hair and pastel jumper and skirt and braces like she just left school picture day, then scream her head off about identity and oppression so hard that venues had to pause shows to fix the sound systems!

And - And as if punk at the time wasn't constantly toying with how people dress or sound or look, and pushing revolution, all the stuff that people get weird about nowadays. "Oi, these young wannabes don't look like The Clash!" The Clash are great, and also they would have kicked your skull in for being an elitist bigoted prick. Multiple groups can be great! Just admit you became old and boring and Tory-fied just like the parents you used to rebel against, and can't handle a genre that's - that's based on anarchy unless you can look at it through nostalgia.

[setiaime]

[etcnnante]

anyone else have internet so bad it caused a sinkhole in your driveway

[shrekgogurt]

green giant float at the macy’s thanksgiving day parade performing a whole big musical number advertising corn this is the most american thing I’ve ever seen