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Month: August 2009

Mountain Pose

caesar

© Jeff Fenske

The other Caesar
in front of a mountain &
B Concourse construction

“It’s All Good” — Rain or Shine!

hands

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BobTino

© Jeff Fenske

Bob ‘Pineapple’ & Tino upbeat despite the weather!

The Grand Entrance

8/21/09

Where is the photographer?

At the Helm

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© Jeff Fenske

Ken pilots the main deck loader

Inside Out

breakroom

© Jeff Fenske

Our view from the breakroom

Lined Up

Tidying Up the Ramp

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© Jeff Fenske

Bobby walks in after staging the equipment for the next day’s operation

Power Under!

8/14/09

Richard brings in China under Anchorage International’s control tower

Canon G10 compact camera

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Related:

Power Under 2

Master Builder: “That’s how we do it in L.A.”

LAstyle

© Jeff Fenske

Team Spirit!!

“That’s how we do it in L.A.”

When Cesar (on the left) would teach us his specialized pallet building techniques, he would often say: “that’s how we do it in L.A..”* We could then pass on this knowledge to others, which knowledge will now…?

Here, he and John are just putting the icing on the cake.

* L.A. is an originating station which builds up many pallets every day; whereas, Anchorage is mainly a crossload cargo hub that moves freight between the freighters that fly between the lower-48 and Asia.

Taylor Maestro

taylor

© Jeff Fenske

Cesarman — Taylorman
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taylor2

© Jeff Fenske

Cesar loads a 20-footer onto the loader

Utopia

Almost utopia, anyway. THIS is utopia!

(Smaller version with info)

ParkStrip

Friday Evening, 8/7/09

Park Strip, Anchorage, Alaska
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Crop from Above G10 Image

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Reaching, Soaring!!

Notice the little girl’s hands.

And it appears that the man in the white shirt is flying the higher three with his left hand.

Playground Rainbow — The Promise is Forever …

schoolrainbow

© Jeff Fenske

Sunset — too late for playing — 8/6/09

Gladys Woods Elementary

A little more than a stone’s throw from our house —
made famous by Sarah Palin in the 2008 VP debate

Empty

Inside an Empty 747 Freighter, Main Deck Front to Back

inside

© Jeff Fenske

12/18/08

ALCC Cups

My favorite church and where I attended Bible school

8/2/09

For the story on this see my article at ONEcanhappen.

NWA Minstrel

Peni

Peni

© Jeff Fenske

I was actually just thinking what a blessing it is to hear
Peni’s voice and ukulele cheer up our breakroom —
somewhat counteracting the blare of the TV.

So I captured the moment
without leaving my chair.

What a man!

Identifying…

Identifying the next pallet’s number while our successors loom in the background, watching the final days of our operation.

I wonder what they’re thinking…

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© Jeff Fenske

With Robert and James at F5

I know what I’m thinking…

The FedEx logo too often reminds me of how the Federal Reserve Bank is as federal as Federal Express. Neither are federal, but they bear the name still. Legal — but ethical???

And look at FedEx‘s paint scheme. Scheme is the proper word: red-orange, white and blueish purple. Cool or subtle con?

And then there is UPS. Ever confuse UPS with USPS when you’re sending a package? One’s federal and one isn’t at all. Just coincidence or a carefully crafted con? Carefully crafted con.

And UPS trucks and planes use a color very similar to United States military drab. Coincidence, wise marketing or con(fidence) job?

And what’s so united about United Parcel Service (clearly from United States)? Like what’s so united about United Airlines, with their red, white and blue paint scheme (sometimes they now add grey)? Are they any more united than American Airlines? Oops!

American Airlines’ paint scheme can’t be overtly red, white and blue too?

United they stand; Northwest we fall.

Oy Veh! Deception in the last days.

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