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On Saturday, Sept. 12, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey welcomed the CMA CGM Brazil, the largest container ship to call on the U.S. East Coast, as its first port of call. The 15,072-TEU container ship traveled into New York Harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, and under the Bayonne Bridge to call at APM Terminal in Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal by Saturday evening.
Photo credit: Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and CMA CGM Group
KIM POSSIBLE - Stars attend the premiere of the live-action Disney Channel Original Movie "Kim Possible" at the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences on Tuesday, February 12. The movie debuts Friday, February 15 (8:00 p.m. ET/PT) on Disney Channel. (Disney Channel/Image Group LA)
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CARIBBEAN SEA (Sept. 19, 2017) The dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS William McLean (T-AKE 12), the amphibious assault ships USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) and USS Wasp (LHD 1), the aviation logistics container ship SS Wright (T-AVB-3), and the amphibious dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), transit the Caribbean Sea. Kearsarge, Wasp, Oak Hill, McLean, and Wright are assisting with relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. The Department of Defense is supporting the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the lead federal agency in helping those affected by Hurricane Irma to minimize suffering and is one component of the overall whole-of-government response effort. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dana D. Legg/Released)
Markham April Invitational, April 20-23, 2017.
Meet is hosted by Markham Aquatic Club at the Markham Pan Am Pool. The last day of the competition.
Aleksei swam 2 events. He has improved his time in 200 m IM by 4 seconds but added a couple of milliseconds to his 200 m Back. At least he did not miss anything today....
Our club won the competition again....
Combined Team Scores - Through Event 58
1. Etobicoke Swimming 4494 2. Markham Aquatic Club 4260.5
3. North York Aquatic Club 3805 4. Guelph Marlin Aq Club 2246
5. Cobra Swim Club 2075 6. Burlington Aquatic Devilrays 1792
7. Newmarket Stingrays 1589 8. London Aquatic Club 1582.5
9. Ducks Swimming 1032.5 10. Lakeshore Swim Club 1027.5
11. Thunder Bay Thunderbolts 792 12. The Dorado Stars Swim Club 728.5
13. Orangeville Otters Swim Club 689.5 14. Uxbridge Swim Club 606.5
15. Swim Ottawa 602.5 16. Vaughan Aquatic Club 593.5
17. Pickering Swim Club 543 18. Mississauga Swimming 537
19. Belleville Youth Swim Team 492 20. Dartmouth Crusaders Swim Club 476.5
21. Cornwall Sea Lions 432 22. Halifax Trojan Aquatic Club 426
23. Northumberland Aquatic Club 402 24. Garden City Aquatic Club 386.5
25. Brantford Aquatic Club 385.5 26. Sackville Waves Aquatic Team 311
27. York Swim Club 222 28. Harbour Amateur Swim Club 162
29. Halifax Wavecutters Aquatics 98 30. Kingston Blue Marlins 21
Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 1755. Photo: Warner Bros. Jane Fonda in Tall Story (Joshua Logan, 1960).
American actress Jane Fonda (1937) is a two-time Academy Award winner for the crime thriller Klute (1971) and the Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978). Roger Vadim's psychedelic Science Fiction spoof Barbarella (1968) made her one of the icons of the European cinema of the 1960s. In 2014, she received the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award.
Jane Fonda was born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda in New York in 1937. She was the daughter of actor Henry Fonda and the Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Brokaw, née Seymour. She has a brother, actor Peter Fonda, and a maternal half-sister, Frances. Her mother committed suicide when Jane was 12. The suicide was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that her mother had died of heart failure. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class at Vassar. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by director Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of The Country Girl. Before starting her acting career, Fonda was a fashion model, gracing the cover of Vogue twice. In 1958, she met Lee Strasberg and she went to study acting in earnest at the Actors Studio. In 1960, she made her Broadway debut in the play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received the first of two Tony Award nominations. Later the same year, she made her screen debut in the romantic comedy Tall Story (Joshua Logan, 1960), in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins. In Walk on the Wild Side (Edward Dmytryk, 1962), she played a prostitute and earned a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. She rose to fame in such films as Period of Adjustment (George Roy Hill, 1962), Sunday in New York (Peter Tewksbury, 1963), Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein, 1965) opposite Lee Marvin, and Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967), co-starring Robert Redford. Fonda also worked in France. She appeared opposite Alain Delon in the delightful sexy thriller Les félins/Joy House (René Clément, 1964). That same year, she was among the all-star cast of the anthology film La Ronde/Circle of Love (Roger Vadim, 1964), based on the classic Austrian novel Der Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler. Fonda astonished everyone (none as much as her father) by becoming one of the first major American actresses to appear nude in a foreign film. Director Roger Vadim became her first husband in 1965. He featured her as a sex goddess in his next films, La curée/Tears of Rapture (Roger Vadim, 1966) with Michel Piccoli, and a segment of the anthology film Histoires extraordinaires/Spirits of the Dead (Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim, 1968), an adaptation of three horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe. In Vadim's segment, Metzgernstein, Fonda played a decadent contessa who falls in love with her pure cousin (the role of her brother Peter Fonda). In 1968, Jane featured in the title role in Vadim's psychedelic SF spoof Barbarella, establishing her status as a sex symbol. Despite the striptease-in-vacuum beginning and the kinky costumes, Barbarella is now a rather innocent and campy film. Brian J. Dillard at AllMovie: "Although it often pops up on 'Worst Movies Ever' lists, it's actually something of a treat if one approaches it with the right attitude. From the eye-popping plasticity of the production design to the gentle grooviness of the Bob Crewe Generation's campy lounge soundtrack, Barbarella is a defiantly trivial film. But Fonda's studied vacuity, Anita Pallenberg's kinky glamour, and John Phillip Law's bronzed pecs and hippie truisms keep things sexy, sweet, and funny. Fonda has spent more than three decades trying to live down the zero-gee peep show that opens the film, but besides a few bare breasts and countless double entendres, nothing here crosses the line between erotic comedy and pornography." A turning point in her career was the American social drama They Shoot Horses, Don't They (Sydney Pollack, 1969). She played one of the contenders in a desperate dance marathon in 1932, during the Great Depression. Fonda herself considers They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as one of her best films. She went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for the crime thriller Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971). In France, Fonda next starred as a reporter alongside Yves Montand in Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972). A year later, she divorced from Vadim.
Jane Fonda is a seven-time Academy Award nominee. She won her second Best Actress Oscar for the Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for her portrayal of the playwright Lillian Hellman in Julia (Fred Zinnemann, 1977), The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) opposite Michael Douglas, On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981) with Katherine Hepburn and her father Henry Fonda, and The Morning After (Sidney Lumet, 1986) with Jeff Bridges. In 1982, Jane Fonda released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling video of the time. It would be the first of the 22 workout videos she released over the next 13 years, selling over 17 million copies. Divorced from her second husband, the politician Tom Hayden in 1990, she married media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting. Divorced from Turner in 2001, she returned to acting with her first film in 15 years with the comedy Monster in Law (Robert Luketic, 2005) opposite Jennifer Lopez. Subsequent films have included Georgia Rule (Garry Marshall, 2007) with Lindsay Lohan, the French drama Et si on vivait tous ensemble?/All Together (Stéphane Robelin, 2011), The Butler (Lee Daniels, 2013) as First Lady Nancy Reagan, and This Is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy, 2014). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 45-year absence, in the play '33 Variations', which earned her a Tony Award nomination, while her recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012-2014), earned her two Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2010 and 2012. Jane Fonda has been an activist for many political causes. Her counterculture-era opposition to the Vietnam War included her being photographed sitting on an anti-aircraft battery on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, which was very controversial. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women and describes herself as a feminist. In 2005, she, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda currently serves on the board of the organisation. Jane Fonda published the autobiography My Life So Far in 2005. In 2011, she published a second memoir, Prime Time. She has two children, daughter Vanessa Vadim (1968) with Roger Vadim, and Troy O'Donovan Hayden (aka Troy Garity) (1973) with Tom Hayden. In the past decade, Jane Fonda appeared in several new films and series. A highlight was Youth (2015), directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.
Sources: Brian J. Dillard (AllMovie), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Laurence Dang (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Grand scale Model American 4-4-0. In the engineer seat we see Mr Buckman who retired from the True Value hardware store in Elmhurst Illinois .
Sylvanian Tour of Homes Stop #12: The Sandycats in Site 45 have a shower in their camper, and they offer its use to any camping cats without access to a shower (see upper right). Sometimes there's even a line, and they're always happy to chat while you wait. (Ironically, the Persis family on the left HAS a shower, but they still haven't gotten it hooked up. Their sarcastic teen daughter says, "Classic our family.") This camper and the Sandycats were my very first Sylvanian Families purchase and inspired the entire Campgrounds. Our Founding Family consists of Simon, Sandra, Shane and Sabrina, and they co-own Catburgler's Burgers.
Bij de uitrusting van een tijdelijk heli vliegveld behoort natuurlijk een wind-zak !.
from Wikipedia:
In 1980, Aerospatiale had replaced the older SA 330 Puma with the newer AS 332 Super Puma as the firm's primary utility helicopter.[9] The AS 332 Super Puma proved to be highly popular; in between July 1981 and April 1987 there was an average production rate of 3 helicopters per month being built for customers, both military and civil.[10] IPTN, an Indonesian aerospace company, also manufactured both the SA 330 and AS 332 under license from Aerospatiale for domestic customers;[11] during the 1990s Iran also procured a number of Indonesian-built Super Pumas.[12]
The Super Puma has proved especially well-suited to the North Sea oil industry, where it is used to ferry personnel and equipment to and from oil platforms. One of the biggest civil operators of the type is Bristow Helicopters, who have a fleet of at least 30 Super Pumas. By 2005, various models of Super Puma have been operated by 38 different nations for a wide variety of purposes;[11] a total of 565 Super Pumas (including military-orientated Cougars) had been delivered or were on order at this point as well.[13]
The success of the AS 332 Super Puma led to the pursuit of extended development programs to produce further advanced models; features included lengthened rotor blades, more powerful engines and gearboxes, increases in takeoff weight, and modernised avionics.[10] A wide variety of specialised Super Puma variants followed the basic transport model into use, including dedicated Search and rescue (SAR) and Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) versions. Military Super Pumas have been marketed as the AS532 Cougar since 1990. As a fallback option to the NHIndustries NH90, a Mark III Super Puma was also considered for development.[10]
Week 12/52 -
*Hit "L" to make it big!*
Week 12 finally brings my best friend, Tim, into the series. Its about damn time, I know. Tim has been my best friend since the early days in high school, we have been best men in each others weddings, golf together, cars, you name it. Well ok, except one thing: SHOES.
Tim is the KING of shoe collecting. He as over 200 pairs of shoes, actually 206 to be exact! No, I am not lying. About 80% or so are Jordan's. The rest consist of Lebron's and some Barclay's scattered throughout. And these are not your normal "Foot Locker" Jordans. No, no, no. These are collector pairs. Like the Levi Strauss Edition that came with an awesome pair of Jordans, Jeans with an inside pattern to match the shoes and a shirt as well. Exactly 2,323 made - and he's got one. Tons of collector mix and match pair sets that are very rare. You name it, Tim's got it. I was never good at math, but considering they are all Nike's and collectors items, its safe to say that he owns a small fortune in shoes. Gotta love this dude!
Camera:
Canon 7d
10-22mm
1/80@F/5.6
ISO 640
Strobist:
1 - Canon 430EXII, 1/16, zoomed @24mm, inside my DIY beauty dish, camera left, 5' away and ~ 5' high.
1- Canon 430EXII, 1/32, zoomed @80mm, bare, held camera right on the flash stand
*all triggered with Meike MK-7's*
Objective: (Jeremy speak)
For this shot Tim and I had to setup nearly every single shoe box and shoes you see. It took almost 2 hours! He has his collection in a bedroom and it almost takes up the entire room! So it was very difficult for me to setup and shoot with the constraints of the room. That's where my ultra-wide angle 10-22mm lens comes in handy.
I had my DIY beauty dish used again for the harder edge it gives shooting onto Tim along with most of the shoes. The side flash helps to illuminate to right side of the shoes and to provide some seperation and alleviate some shadows. It was not an easy shoot and took a while to get this right. In fact, this was an earlier shot in the night that I liked better than the later ones we did.
And as you can see, it was nearly impossible to get every single shoe and shoe box into the shot. So this is not the best in terms of composition but its not bad considering our space constraints!
Balat (IsIstanbul
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul,_Turkey
Toponymy
Main article: Names of Istanbul
Byzantium (Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion) is the first known name of the city. Around 660 BC,[note 1] Greek settlers from the city-state of Megara founded a Doric colony on the present-day Istanbul, and named the new colony after their king, Byzas.[12] After Constantine I (Constantine the Great) made the city the new eastern capital of the Roman Empire in 330 AD, the city became widely known as Constantinopolis or Constantinople, which, as the Latinised form of "Κωνσταντινούπολις" (Kōnstantinoúpolis), means the "City of Constantine".[13] He also attempted to promote the name Nea Roma ("New Rome"), but this never caught on.[14] Constantinople remained the official name of the city throughout the Byzantine period, and the most common name used for it in the West until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.
By the 19th century, the city had acquired a number of names used by either foreigners or Turks. Europeans often used Stamboul alongside Constantinople to refer to the whole of the city, but Turks used the former name only to describe the historic peninsula between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara. Pera was used to describe the area between the Golden Horn and the Bosphorus, but Turks also used the name Beyoğlu, which is still in use today.[15] However, with the Turkish Postal Service Law of 28 March 1930, the Turkish authorities formally requested foreigners to adopt İstanbul, a name in existence since the 10th century,[16] as the sole name of the city within their own languages.[17]
Etymologically, the name "İstanbul" (Turkish pronunciation: [isˈtanbuɫ], colloquially [ɯsˈtambuɫ]) derives from the Medieval Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" [is tin ˈpolin] or, in the Aegean dialect, "εἰς τὰν Πόλιν" [is tan ˈpolin] (Modern Greek "στην Πόλη" [stin ˈpoli]), which means "in the city" or "to the city".[13][16] In modern Turkish, the name is written "İstanbul", with a dotted İ, as the Turkish alphabet distinguishes between a dotted and dotless I. Also, while in English the stress is on the first syllable ("Is"), in Turkish it is on the second syllable ("tan"). Like Rome, Istanbul has been called "The City of Seven Hills" because the oldest part of the city is supposedly built on seven hills, each of which bears a historic mosque.[18]
History
First settlements
Main article: Byzantium
Byzantine remains of a column found at Byzantium's acropolis, located today within the Topkapı Palace complex.
Recent construction of the Marmaray tunnel unearthed a Neolithic settlement underneath Yenikapı on Istanbul's peninsula. Dating back to the 7th millennium BC, before the Bosphorus was even formed, the discovery indicated that the peninsula was settled thousands of years earlier than previously thought.[19] Thracian tribes established two settlements—Lygos and Semistra—on the Sarayburnu, near where Topkapı Palace now stands, between the 13th and 11th centuries BC. On the Asian side, artifacts have been found in Fikirtepe (present-day Kadıköy) that date back to the Chalcolithic period.[20] The same location was the site of a Phoenician trading post at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC as well as the town of Chalcedon, which was established by Greek settlers from Megara in 685 BC.[10]
However, the history of Istanbul generally begins around 660 BC,[note 1] when the settlers from Megara, under the command of King Byzas, established Byzantion (Latinised as Byzantium) on the European side of the Bosphorus. By the end of the century, an acropolis was established at the former locations of Lygos and Semistra, on the Sarayburnu.[12] The city experienced a brief period of Persian rule at the turn of the 5th century BC, but the Greeks recaptured it during the Greco-Persian Wars.[21] Byzantium then continued as part of the Athenian League and its successor, the Second Athenian Empire, before ultimately gaining independence in 355 BC.[22] Long protected by the Roman Republic, Byzantium officially became a part of the Roman Empire in AD 73.
Byzantium's decision to side with the usurper Pescennius Niger against Roman Emperor Septimus Severus cost it dearly; by the time it surrendered at the end of 195, two years of siege had left the city devastated.[23] Still, five years later, Severus began to rebuild Byzantium, and the city regained—and, by some accounts, surpassed—its previous prosperity.[24]
Rise and fall of Constantinople
Main article: Constantinople
Further information: Fall of Constantinople
Created in 1422 by Cristoforo Buondelmonti, this is the oldest surviving map of Constantinople and the only one that predates the Ottoman conquest.
When Constantine I defeated Licinius at the Battle of Chrysopolis in September 324, he effectively became the emperor of the whole of the Roman Empire.[25] Just two months later, Constantine laid out the plans for a new, Christian city to replace Byzantium. Intended to replace Nicomedia as the eastern capital of the empire, the city was named Nea Roma (New Rome); however, most simply called it Constantinople ("the city of Constantine"), a name that persisted into the 20th century.[26] Six years later, on 11 May 330, Constantinople was proclaimed the capital of an empire that eventually became known as the Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire.[27]
The establishment of Constantinople served as one of Constantine's most lasting accomplishments, shifting Roman power eastward and becoming a center of Greek culture and Christianity.[27][28] Numerous churches were built across the city, including the Hagia Sofia, which remained the world's largest cathedral for a thousand years.[29] The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople developed in the city, and its leader is still one of the foremost figures in the Greek Orthodox Church. Constantinople's location also ensured its existence would stand the test of time; for many centuries, its walls and seafront protected Europe against invaders from the east as well as from the advance of Islam.[28] During most of the Middle Ages and the latter part of the Byzantine period, Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in the western world.[30]
The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled the end of the Byzantine Empire.
Constantinople began to decline after the Fourth Crusade, during which it was sacked and pillaged.[32] The city subsequently became the center of the Latin Empire, created by Catholic crusaders to replace the Orthodox Byzantine Empire, which was divided into splinter states.[33] However, the Latin Empire was short-lived, and the Byzantine Empire was restored, weakened, in 1261.[34] Constantinople's churches, defenses, and basic services were in disrepair,[35] and its population had dwindled to forty thousand from nearly half a million during the 9th century.[36][37]
Various economic and military policies instituted by Andronikos II, such as the reduction of forces, weakened the empire and left it more vulnerable to attack.[38] In the mid-14th century, the Ottoman Turks began a strategy by which they took smaller towns and cities over time, cutting off Constantinople's supply routes and strangling it slowly.[39] Finally, on 29 May 1453, after an eight-week siege (during which the last Roman Emperor, Constantine XI, was killed), Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" captured Constantinople and declared it the new capital of the Ottoman Empire.[40][41] Hours later, the sultan rode to the Hagia Sofia and summoned an imam to proclaim the Islamic creed, converting the grand cathedral into an imperial mosque.[42]
Royal New Zealand Air Force Wing Commander Richard Beaton, Wing Operations Center director for Exercise Kiwi Flag briefs newly-arrived United States Airmen at RNZAF Base Ohakea, New Zealand, Nov. 12. The 26 Air Force personnel deployed to the 517th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron on a C-17 Globemaster III from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, to conduct flying operations using the heavy-airlift platform. The new arrivals joined more than 40 Airmen who deployed from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Nov. 5. Kiwi Flag personnel are supporting Exercise Southern Katipo -- held on New Zealand’s South Island -- by managing air operations and providing cargo and passenger airlift including tactical air drops to SK participants. Southern Katipo hosts nine countries involved in air, land and maritime operations. Exercise Kiwi Flag runs through Nov. 29. Shea is deployed from JBER where he is assigned as the 517th Airlift Squadron director of operations. He hails from Winthrop Harbor, Ill. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Denise Johnson/Released)
ATLANTA, GA - April 20, 2012
Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless perform at The Masquerade
© Danielle Boise/Target Audience Magazine
Known internally as the Project 7/12, the brutal Cerbera Speed 12 was a one-off high-performance concept car designed and developed by TVR in Blackpool as a GTI-class racer.
Noted for having twice the power-to-weight ratio of a Bugatti Veyron 16.4, the composite Speed 12 had a front-mounted 7.7-litre V12 - hence the initial Project 7/12 codename - engineered and built in-house at TVR, and claimed to develop at least 840bhp.
Due to regulation changes, the TVR became ineligible to race at Le Mans. It did compete in around 50 other races, however, as well as millions more as the car of choice for enthusiastic gamers the world over, 'driving' it on the cult Playstation Gran Turismo game.
In 2005 EVO magazine drove the real thing, describing it as "terrifyingly quick" and ultimately scoring the TVR 11.5 out of 10, its highest score ever.
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Cartier Style et Luxe, Goodwood Festival of Speed 2014
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12.The name “euro” was devised in December 1995 at the European Council in Madrid. Image: euro sign with measures
Making Chocolate Balls at Christmas is a tradition in my family or at least my mother always has. Full recipe on my blog here: www.kylewith.com/2011/12/the-best-chocolate-christmas-balls
This leg was one of the more complicated, leaving Munich early in the morning, stopping in Heidelberg and Sinsheim, ending up finally in my next destination, Leipzig, in the former East Germany.
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Tupolev Tu-144
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Tu-144
Tu-144 prototype in flight on 1 February 1969
RoleSupersonic jet airliner
ManufacturerTupolev OKB
First flight31 December 1968[1]
Introduction1 November 1977[1]
StatusRetired
Primary usersAeroflot
Ministry of Aviation Industry (Soviet Union)
NASA
Produced1963–1983
Number built16
The Tupolev Tu-144 (NATO name: "Charger") is a retired jet airliner, which was the world's first commercial supersonic transport aircraft (SST). It is one of only two SSTs to enter commercial service, the other being the Anglo-French Concorde. The design, publicly unveiled in January 1962, was constructed in the Soviet Union under the direction of the Tupolev design bureau, headed by Alexei Tupolev.[1]
The prototype first flew on 31 December 1968 near Moscow,[1] two months before the first flight of Concorde. The Tu-144 first went supersonic on 5 June 1969, and on 26 May 1970 became the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. A Tu-144 crashed in 1973 at the Paris Air Show, delaying its further development. The aircraft was introduced into passenger service on 1 November 1977, almost two years after Concorde. In May 1978, another Tu-144 (an improved version, named Tu-144D) crashed in a test flight while being delivered, and the passenger fleet was permanently grounded after only 55 scheduled flights. The aircraft remained in use as a cargo aircraft until 1983, by which point a total of 102 commercial flights had been completed. The Tu-144 was later used by the Soviet space program to train pilots of the Buran spacecraft, and by NASA for supersonic research
Four London buses for £12, - the 'decker has a small chip in the front window, while some, including the bendybus, are lacking mirrors, but all in all, a good haul !!
I left a load on the stall, as they were covered in paint chips and other damage, when I went back later, they had all gone anyway.
Notes from the workshop on natural spirituality over the weekend.
Natural spirituality honors:
- The wisdom tradition of Christianity
- The psychology of Carl Jung
- Dreamwork
- the body's wisdom (honoring your own intuition)
- the contemplative approach (silence and stillness)
We refer to it as "natural" spirituality because it's accessible to everyone. Everyone has dreams; everyone has intuition; everyone is able to tap into inner stillness. We don't have to go to a priest or a wise man to gain access.
Dreams reflect beliefs and misconceptions that stand in the way of our spiritual progress. They introduce us to ourselves.
Dreams can be very direct when our actions are harmful.
"Summoned or not, God is present."— Carl Jung
"Trust and not know simultaneously." — M. C. Richards
Jung's model of the psyche: the ego, the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious.
Everything came out of the union of Logos (male energy) and Eros (female energy) ("I like to call it the cosmic orgasm" — J. Wright).
The adaptive self — we all grow up with a provisional version of ourselves. This is necessary on some level. Dreamwork helps us move into a more expanded version of the self.
On Saturday, Sept. 12, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey welcomed the CMA CGM Brazil, the largest container ship to call on the U.S. East Coast, as its first port of call. The 15,072-TEU container ship traveled into New York Harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, and under the Bayonne Bridge to call at APM Terminal in Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal by Saturday evening.
Photo credit: Port Authority of New York & New Jersey and CMA CGM Group
11-6-12 THE CONTRACT SUPER SCOOPERS CONDUCTED A COMMUNICATIONS AND AERIAL DROP TRAINING SESSION IN BROWN'S CANYON, JUST BELOW THE OAT MOUNTAIN RADIO TRANSMITTER SITE OVERLOOKING THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY.
PHOTO by RICK McCLURE
ATLANTA, GA - April 20, 2012
Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless perform at The Masquerade
© Danielle Boise/Target Audience Magazine
On Saturday, Sept. 12, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey welcomed the CMA CGM Brazil, the largest container ship to call on the U.S. East Coast, as its first port of call. The 15,072-TEU container ship traveled into New York Harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, and under the Bayonne Bridge to call at APM Terminal in Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal by Saturday evening.
Photo credit: Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
Nineteen new members of the Class of 2020 were celebrated and honored at Ruby Van Meter School on Friday, June 12. The event was one of eight personal commencement ceremonies being held throughout Des Moines Public School during the month of June, celebrating success one graduate at a time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Saturday, Sept. 12, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey welcomed the CMA CGM Brazil, the largest container ship to call on the U.S. East Coast, as its first port of call. The 15,072-TEU container ship traveled into New York Harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, and under the Bayonne Bridge to call at APM Terminal in Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal by Saturday evening.
Photo credit: Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
French postcard by E.D.U.G., Paris, no. 517. Photo: Sam Levin.
American actress Jane Fonda (1937) is a two-time Academy Award winner for the crime thriller Klute (1971) and the Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978). Roger Vadim's psychedelic Science Fiction spoof Barbarella (1968) made her one of the icons of the European cinema of the 1960s. In 2014, she received the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award.
Jane Fonda was born Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda in New York in 1937. She was the daughter of actor Henry Fonda and the Canadian-born socialite Frances Ford Brokaw, née Seymour. She has a brother, actor Peter Fonda, and a maternal half-sister, Frances. Her mother committed suicide when Jane was 12. The suicide was kept from her as a teenager, and she was told that her mother had died of heart failure. Fonda learned the truth months later while leafing through a movie magazine in art class at Vassar. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was prompted by director Joshua Logan to appear with her father in the 1954 Omaha Community Theatre production of The Country Girl. Before starting her acting career, Fonda was a fashion model, gracing the cover of Vogue twice. In 1958, she met Lee Strasberg and she went to study acting in earnest at the Actors Studio. In 1960, she made her Broadway debut in the play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received the first of two Tony Award nominations. Later the same year, she made her screen debut in the romantic comedy Tall Story (Joshua Logan, 1960), in which she recreated one of her Broadway roles as a college cheerleader pursuing a basketball star, played by Anthony Perkins. In Walk on the Wild Side (Edward Dmytryk, 1962), she played a prostitute and earned a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer. She rose to fame in such films as Period of Adjustment (George Roy Hill, 1962), Sunday in New York (Peter Tewksbury, 1963), Cat Ballou (Elliot Silverstein, 1965) opposite Lee Marvin, and Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967), co-starring Robert Redford. Fonda also worked in France. She appeared opposite Alain Delon in the delightful sexy thriller Les félins/Joy House (René Clément, 1964). That same year, she was among the all-star cast of the anthology film La Ronde/Circle of Love (Roger Vadim, 1964), based on the classic Austrian novel Der Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler. Fonda astonished everyone (none as much as her father) by becoming one of the first major American actresses to appear nude in a foreign film. Director Roger Vadim became her first husband in 1965. He featured her as a sex goddess in his next films, La curée/Tears of Rapture (Roger Vadim, 1966) with Michel Piccoli, and a segment of the anthology film Histoires extraordinaires/Spirits of the Dead (Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim, 1968), an adaptation of three horror stories by Edgar Allan Poe. In Vadim's segment, Metzgernstein, Fonda played a decadent contessa who falls in love with her pure cousin (the role of her brother Peter Fonda). In 1968, Jane featured in the title role in Vadim's psychedelic SF spoof Barbarella, establishing her status as a sex symbol. Despite the striptease-in-vacuum beginning and the kinky costumes, Barbarella is now a rather innocent and campy film. Brian J. Dillard at AllMovie: "Although it often pops up on 'Worst Movies Ever' lists, it's something of a treat if one approaches it with the right attitude. From the eye-popping plasticity of the production design to the gentle grooviness of the Bob Crewe Generation's campy lounge soundtrack, Barbarella is a defiantly trivial film. But Fonda's studied vacuity, Anita Pallenberg's kinky glamour, and John Phillip Law's bronzed pecs and hippie truisms keep things sexy, sweet, and funny. Fonda has spent more than three decades trying to live down the zero-gee peep show that opens the film, but besides a few bare breasts and countless double entendres, nothing here crosses the line between erotic comedy and pornography."A turning point in her career was the American social drama They Shoot Horses, Don't They (Sydney Pollack, 1969). She played one of the contenders in a desperate dance marathon in 1932, during the Great Depression. Fonda herself considers They Shoot Horses, Don't They? as one of her best films. She went on to win the Best Actress Oscar for the crime thriller Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971). In France, Fonda next starred as a reporter alongside Yves Montand in Tout Va Bien (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1972). A year later, she divorced from Vadim.
Jane Fonda is a seven-time Academy Award nominee. She won her second Best Actress Oscar for the Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978). Her other nominations were for her portrayal of the playwright Lillian Hellman in Julia (Fred Zinnemann, 1977), The China Syndrome (James Bridges, 1979) opposite Michael Douglas, On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981) with Katherine Hepburn and her father Henry Fonda, and The Morning After (Sidney Lumet, 1986) with Jeff Bridges. In 1982, Jane Fonda released her first exercise video, Jane Fonda's Workout, which became the highest-selling video of the time. It would be the first of the 22 workout videos she released over the next 13 years, selling over 17 million copies. Divorced from her second husband, the politician Tom Hayden in 1990, she married media mogul Ted Turner in 1991 and retired from acting. Divorced from Turner in 2001, she returned to acting with her first film in 15 years with the comedy Monster in Law (Robert Luketic, 2005) opposite Jennifer Lopez. Subsequent films have included Georgia Rule (Garry Marshall, 2007) with Lindsay Lohan, the French drama Et si on vivait tous ensemble?/All Together (Stéphane Robelin, 2011), The Butler (Lee Daniels, 2013) as First Lady Nancy Reagan, and This Is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy, 2014). In 2009, she returned to Broadway after a 45-year absence, in the play '33 Variations', which earned her a Tony Award nomination, while her recurring role in the HBO drama series The Newsroom (2012-2014), earned her two Emmy Award nominations. She also released another five exercise videos between 2010 and 2012. Jane Fonda has been an activist for many political causes. Her counterculture-era opposition to the Vietnam War included her being photographed sitting on an anti-aircraft battery on a 1972 visit to Hanoi, which was very controversial. She has also protested the Iraq War and violence against women and describes herself as a feminist. In 2005, she, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem co-founded the Women's Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training, and the creation of original content. Fonda currently serves on the board of the organisation. Jane Fonda published the autobiography My Life So Far in 2005. In 2011, she published a second memoir, Prime Time. She has two children, daughter Vanessa Vadim (1968) with Roger Vadim, and Troy O'Donovan Hayden (aka Troy Garity) (1973) with Tom Hayden. In the past decade, Jane Fonda appeared in several new films and series. A highlight was Youth (2015), directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel.
Sources: Brian J. Dillard (AllMovie), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Laurence Dang (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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The 2009 Lenexa Freedom Run was held Friday, July 4th in Historic Old Town Lenexa.
The 5K winners were Clifton Campbell of Laporte, CO with a time of 15:43 and
Kristen Gillespie of Shawnee Mission, KS with a time of 18:12.
The 10K winners were Bret Imgrund of Shawnee Mission, KS with a time of 31:42 and Laura Eakin of Commerce City, CO with a time of 39:15.
On Saturday, Sept. 12, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey welcomed the CMA CGM Brazil, the largest container ship to call on the U.S. East Coast, as its first port of call. The 15,072-TEU container ship traveled into New York Harbor, past the Statue of Liberty, and under the Bayonne Bridge to call at APM Terminal in Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal by Saturday evening.
Photo credit: Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
Lufthansa Airbus A380-841 D-AIMI Berlin is slowing down on runway 25L in Frankfurt with D-AIMC taxiing and a departing Lufthansa Boeing 747-430 in the background..
MSN 72 has had its first flight on 16.11.11 with the test registration F-WWSR and was delivered to LH on 16.05.12.
The jet is powered by 4x Rolls-Royce Trent 970 turbofans and has a cabin layout with 8x First, 98x Business and 420x Economy Class seats.
This is flight LH711 from Tokyo (NRT).
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Taken 23/03/12: The Didcot, Newbury & Southampton Railway (DN&SR) reached Winchester by 1885 and as a consequence the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) built a link from the DN&SR’s Winchester (Chesil) station to meet their Waterloo-Southampton line at Shawford Junction. W.L.Galbraith, the LSWR’s Consulting Engineer, was responsible for building the viaduct that carried the line across the River Itchen and the surrounding water meadows. The viaduct was built of concrete with brick facing. The line was opened in October 1891 and was worked by the LSWR from Southampton to Winchester Chesil station. The Great Western Railway (GWR) took over the haulage north to Newbury & Didcot. After an important role in the build-up to D-Day, closure to passenger traffic eventually came in March 1960. Freight services lingered on into the mid 1960’s when the line closed to all traffic For more about the preservation of the Viaduct to date and future plans, please see:
FUNG, H.K. THE SHOP SIGNS OF PEKING, PEKING: CHINESE PAINTING ASSOCIATION OF PEKING
1931
18 leaves of plates containing 101 hand-colored illustrations with original cloth-backed brocade boards, tied, from a limited edition of 100 copies, illustrating the signs used by Chinese shopkeepers to advertise their trade, each sign accompanied by a description in English and Chinese
Construction of a Custom Data Center -Weeks 10 - 12: The first of the site's UPS is lowered into the structure.
A sequence of photos of the progression in constructing a data center rapidly, in 26 weeks, at 1201 Comstock St, Santa Clara, CA. This data center facility was designed and constructed by Digital Realty Trust.
KIM POSSIBLE - Stars attend the premiere of the live-action Disney Channel Original Movie "Kim Possible" at the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences on Tuesday, February 12. The movie debuts Friday, February 15 (8:00 p.m. ET/PT) on Disney Channel. (Disney Channel/Image Group LA)
SADIE STANLEY, CHRISTY CARLSON ROMANO
Karen Miller of VC demonstrates Thermal Blankets
during visit on June 12, 2013.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., hosted some 100 campers and volunteers from the Deaf-Blind Camp of Maryland on June 12. The camp, based in West River, Md., was established in 1998 to provide a safe, fun, barrier-free week for people who have significant hearing and vision loss.
Camp leaders requested the tour to highlight this year’s theme: “Out of this world."
The event started at Goddard’s Visitors Center, where the campers, aged 18 to 80, learned about space and NASA missions. The crowd favorite was touching the rockets in the Goddard Rocket Garden.
"This is a beautiful experience," said 61-year-old camper Betsy Wohl.
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Credit: NASA/Goddard
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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The Westmorland County Show is one of the largest one day Shows in the Country and certainly one of the oldest, given that the Society was founded in 1799 and is still going from strength to strength 214 Shows later.
Voted by the Farmers Guardian readers as the 5th top Show and the only one-day show in the top 12!
The Westmorland County Show held on the second Thursday in September each year; attracts over 29,000 people. We pride ourselves on being a major livestock Show, with its heart firmly in agriculture. Sections include cattle, sheep, goats, horses, pigs, heavy horses, alpacas, dogs and poultry, as well as marquees for The Women's Institute, Learning for Life, Crafts from Cumbria, local produce Food Hall, Rural Crafts and over 350 trade stands. Not forgetting the very popular Cumberland and Westmorland Wrestling. A colourful event, with many competitors competing in traditional costumes.
Pirate Brawls Arena
Some kind of a computer duel fight game location.
1. The Captain
2. The Conquistador
3. The Witch
4. The Huntress
5. The Crimson
6. The Veteran
7. The Keeper
8. The Aztec
9. The Deckhand
10. The Nightwatchman
11. The Mermaid
12. The Warrior
13. The Musketeer
14. The Baroness
15. The Inquisitor
16. The Grenadier
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK - JULY 12: The DRX team reacts to a victory against FunPlus Phoenix at the VALORANT Champions Tour: Stage 2 Masters Group Stage on July 12, 2022 in Copenhagen, Denmark. (Photo by Colin Young-Wolff/Riot Games)
A couple of weeks into the renewed activity, and the intention to completely demolish the upper reservoir is clear. Under previous development proposals there have been suggestions that the site of the upper reservoir may be used for parking/infrastructure relating to whatever development was introduced to the site around what remained of the other reservoirs.
2016 Update: this set charts the demolition of the Baildon Moor Reservoirs which began in 2012. Most of the set is from the first stage of demolition, with a further period of activity in late 2013 when the stone linings were removed. In 14-15 a little wildness returned to the site as represented by nesting Oystercatchers. As of early 2016 what remained of the reservoirs is being infilled as the site is prepared for some sort of development. As this is mostly a legacy set I suggest you consult local media for more recent news, for example Bradford T&A has covered the story.
2013 update: work resumed (October 2013) on the significant demolition activity on the historic Baildon Moor reservoir site. All of the reservoirs have essentially been demolished, with the lining stone being stripped out for reuse. Further clearing of vegetation took place, including the attractive patch of heather and bilberry which covered the bank of the bottom reservoir. Given that there is Green Hairstreak butterfly colony a few tens of yards from the reservoir wall, who knows what flora and fauna have been lost. We are left with three large muddy pits, little in the way of vegetation and an increasingly damaged perimeter wall which the owners seem to have given up on. The site is available to let, but one wonders what sort of use might be deemed "suitable" in this moorland environment.
We have made enquiries to the Parish Council and to Friends of Baildon Moor as to what this most recent development activity might be leading towards, as we have been unable to find any development proposals in the public domain. Nobody seems very sure, but the development of fishing lakes has been suggested as one possibility. I have nothing to verify that though.
To me the best two solutions would be either to 1) complete the demolition, remove the boundary wall and return the area to common land with the aid of some ecological restoration, or 2) develop the site as a nature reserve, in a similar way to other post-industrial sites like opencast workings. This latter option could involve development of a wetland (given that the largest areas of open water on the moor have now been lost), perhaps with the sponsorship of some organisation like the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. I expect the land owner has more economically lucrative aspirations though.
The images in this set do get frequently viewed, and there seems to be no-one else recording the activity, so I'll continue to do so. This is personal activity motivated by my concern for the visual effect on the surrounding moorland environment, damage to the heritage of the area and inappropriate development in a special place. Hopefully the hundreds of other of my images and journal entries that I've made available on Flickr and Blipfoto, of the moor, its wildlife and local heritage stand as some testimony to my long-standing affection for this place.
Background:
In July 2011 contractors moved onto the site of the Baildon Moor Reservoirs and began clearing it of vegetation and knocking through the two lower reservoirs. This came as a surprise to members of the local community and led to widespread concern. It emerged that the actions related to the proposed development of some sort of water-based recreational centre. No planning application had been submitted for the work.
After listening to public concern about the development and the manner in which it was being conducted, Baildon Parish Council issued a statement about the developments which can be viewed here: baildonparishcouncil.gov.uk/website/index.php/doc-remos/M...
After the major ground work had been completed the site went quiet over the winter of 2011/12. The lower two reservoirs refilled, but to such a height that new concerns were expressed, and according to the Friends of Baildon Moor (see minutes of the Feb 2012 Committee Meeting here: baildonmoor.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Feb-... ) the reservoirs were drained, and a civil engineer from Bradford Council has ordered that no further work be done until a full survey had been conducted, and appropriate plans submitted for approval, this justifying some of the initial concerns of residents.
Although this set focuses on the initial stage of clearance, I will update it periodically with any further visible evidence of developments on site.