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I was just trying something new on this and wasn't happy with the blurry strawberry, but did like how the lighting turned out. Probably made it harder on myself using the 55-200mm. My hand model got tired which ended the session. Oh well, just for fun, right?
Strobist info: SB600 1/2 power umbrella camera upper left above.
Tues.05.22.12 - The Twelve-time All-Star Manny Ramirez will play four games at The Dell Diamond this week with the Sacramento RiverCats!
Taken by Dominic, age 12.
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Tues.05.22.12 - The Twelve-time All-Star Manny Ramirez will play four games at The Dell Diamond this week with the Sacramento RiverCats!
Tues.05.22.12 - The Twelve-time All-Star Manny Ramirez will play four games at The Dell Diamond this week with the Sacramento RiverCats!
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SAN DIEGO (Feb. 11, 2011) An aviation boatswain’s mate assigned to the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) directs an F/A-18 Hornet strike fighter piloted by Lt. Jack Stewart, assigned to the Blue Dolphins of Fighter Attack Squadron (VFA) 203, down the flight line at Naval Air Station North Island. Hundreds of current and historic Navy aircraft are on display at the Naval Air Station North Island flight line to participate in the Centennial of Naval Aviation open house and Parade of Flight Feb. 12. The Navy is observing the Centennial of Naval Aviation with a series of nationwide events celebrating 100 years of heritage, progress and achievement in naval aviation. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Trevor Welsh/Released)
(National Museum of the United States Air Force collection, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, USA)
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From exhibit signage:
LOCKHEED
SR-71
BLACKBIRD
As of March 2020, the "Blackbird" remains the fastest- and highest-flying production aircraft. Developed at the height of the Cold War, the SR-71 flew top secret missions around the world for more than 20 years.
Entering service in 1966, under the code name PROJECT SENIOR CROWN, the secretive Blackbird performed flights over dangerous hot spots, including North Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, and the Persian Gulf. At 80,000 feet, the Blackbird could photograph 100,000 square miles in one hour. The SR-71 also flew reconnaissance missions along the borders of Communist China and the Soviet Union.
The United States Air Force retired the SR-71 in 1990, with a brief return to service in the mid-1990s. No SR-71 was ever lost to hostile action.
SPEED
2,193 miles per hour.
In 1974, an SR-71 flew from New York to London in only 1 hour, 54 minutes, beating the previous record by almost three hours.
FASTER THAN A BULLET
SR-71: 3,216 feet per second
Bullet: 2,930 feet per second
DISTANCE
In 1971, an SR-71 flew 15,000 miles nonstop in 10.5 hours - circumnavigating the continental United States twice - averaging about 1,500 miles per hour and slowing down only to refuel in flight.
ALTITUDE
85,069 feet
SR-71: 16.1 miles high
U-2: less than 70,000 feet high
737: about 30,000 feet high
FLYING THE SR-71
Blackbirds operated from three primary locations: Beale Air Force Base, California, USA; Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan; and Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England. With aerial refueling, SR-71s could cover the world.
Only a few elite pilots and reconnaissance systems officers (RSOs) operated the SR-71. Just 93 pilots and 89 RSOs flew operational SR-71 missions.
On March 21, 1968, in the aircraft on display, Major (later General) Jerome F. O'Malley and Major Edward D. Payne conducted the first operational SR-71 sortie. During its career, this aircraft accumulated 2,981 flying hours and flew more sorties than any other SR-71.
COLD WAR NECESSITY
In the mid-1950s, the United States recognized the need for a U-2 replacement. Lockheed proposed the ultrafast Blackbird design to meet this need. The first Blackbird version, the single seat A-12, was built for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Ther term 'Blackbird' refers to not just one aircraft, but a 'family' that included the United States Air Force's SR-71 and YF-12A, the CIA's A-12, the M-21 carrier, and the D-21 remotely piloted aircraft.
From 1967-1968, A-12s flew classified missions under the name PROJECT BLACK SHIELD, spying on missile sites and military activities in Southeast Asia and North Korea. PROJECT BLACK SHIELD depended heavily on United States Air Force support, including maintenance, film processing, aerial refueling, and basing in Okinawa, Japan.
ENGINEERING MARVEL
The Blackbird flew higher and faster than any aircraft in existence, while being significantly less visible on radar. This required solving extremely difficult technological problems.
Heat heavily influenced the Blackbird's construction. Aerodynamic friction at high speed heated parts of the plane to 600 degrees Fahrenheit. When using the afterburners, the engine cowlings would reach 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit.
In order to reduce visibility on radar, engineers made extensive use of "plastic" laminates, triangular seams, vertical tails canted inward at 15 degrees, and radar-absorbing paint.
Engineers blended the leading edges and fuselage into chines to reduce radar visibility, provide extra lift, and improve the aerodynamic performance of the plane.
THE J58 ENGINE
The SR-71 was powered by a unique engine and specially developed fuel. The SR-71 maintained Mach 3 flight from the J58's continuous ramjet afterburner. JP-7 fuel remained stable at extreme temperatures and was chemically ignited.
Intake air had to be slowed down to less than the speed of sound. Air moving this fast was too hot for the turbojet engine to use to create thrust. The addition of moveable spikes on each engine regulated the air flow regardless of the flight speed.
At high speed, the SR-71 used continuous afterburner, which was directly fed by air from the intake though external tubes. This "ramjet" feature added to the thrust already provided by the powerful turbojet section.
SR-71 crews wore full-pressure suits in case the cockpit depressurized or they had to eject at high altitude.
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On Nov. 12, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma hosted the Central Oklahoma Regional Hunger Fighters Conference. Members of the Regional Food Bank's network of 1,310 community-based partners spent the day learning and collaborating on how to best fight hunger in the state.
ATLANTA, GA - November 21, 2012
The 3rd Annual The Stuffing event took over the Center Stage Music Complex (Vinyl, The Loft, Center Stage Theatre) with 13 bands: Bad Books, Harrison Hudson, Death on Two Wheels, Gobotron, Ponderosa, All Get Out, Hardy T. Morris and the Outfit, Kevin Devine, Royal Thunder, GROUPLOVE, o'brother, Cage The Elephant, Manchester Orchestra.
© Danielle Boise
After changing into try clothes (obviously, that was a dumb idea), I surveyed the rising water and decided I could stay for the night since I lived on a boat and they float.
The stones of the dismantled spire have been carefully stored ready for the rebuild on a purpose-built platform across the road from the church.
Read more here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-16851972
And:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Catharine's_Church,_Scholes
A set of pics taken from the top of the scaffolding as the work was being completed are here:
ATLANTA, GA - April 18, 2012
The Devil's Carnival/The Plaze Theatre
Q&A with Terrance Zdunich (writer/Lucifier), Darren Lynn Bousman (director), J. LaRose (actor/The Major)
© Danielle Boise/Target Audience Magazine
Opening Reception, 9.13.12.
The Mark of Abel:
LYDIA PANAS (Main Gallery)
&
Crafted at RayKo & Marketplace Artists:
ANDRÉ HERMANN
JEANNE HAUSER
MATT O’BRIEN
NICOLO SERTORIO
SHESAIDRED
TOMASO RUSH
1-26-12 @ The Continental Room ... my chord to my flash broke... so I had to hit the pilot light... and do a long exposure... this is what I got...
ITASCA, IL - NOVEMBER 12: The Chicago Dental Society hosted its Installation of 2024 Officers and Directors on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at the Westin Chicago Northwest Hotel in Itasca, Illinois. This year’s event also honored 41, 50-Year members.
(Photo credit: Randy Belice for the Chicago Dental Society)
On March 12, the comet was near the crescent moon. This definitely helped in locating the tiny fireball.
LOS GATOS, CA, USA - JUNE 12: The rubber duckies are kicking off their summer at the 4th Annual Silicon Valley Duck Race in Vasona Lake Park. June 12, 2011 in Los Gatos, CA, USA
LONDON - MARCH 12:The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival benefit gala at Dartmouth House on March 12th, 2008 in London. (Photo by Nick Harvey/Human Rights Watch)
This June, it is 75 years ago since Saab first announced that it would produce cars, on a press conference in Linköping 1947. The rest is well known history and resulted in 4,6 million cars that created the famous Saab Spirit around the world.
www.vastsverige.com/visittrollhattanvanersborg/evenemang/...
June 10-12 the Saab Car Museum in Trollhättan celebrate 75 years of Saab cars.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY - MARCH 12: The 2017 Bardavon Gala: An Evening With Aretha Franklin at the 1869 Bardavon Opera House on March 12, 2017 in Poughkeepsie, New York. (Photo by Steve Mack/S.D. Mack Pictures)
7-6-12 The Trafford Center Manchester Star of The Only Way is Essex Sam Faiers WHSmith Books at Selfridgesmeets fans at book signing
a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel in Los Angeles, California, constructed between 1974 and 1976.[6] It was designed by architect John C. Portman Jr.. The top floor has a revolving restaurant and bar. It was originally owned by investors that included a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation and John Portman & Associates. The building is managed by Aimbridge Hospitality (IHR), and is valued at $200 million.
The hotel and its architect John Portman have been the subject of several documentaries and academic analyses.[7][8]
Fredric Jameson discusses the hotel in his 1984 essay, "Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," and in his 1991 book by the same name.[9][10] He writes that
the Bonaventura aspires to being a total space, a complete world, a kind of miniature city (and I would want to add that to this new total space corresponds a new collective practice, a new mode in which individuals move and congregate, something like the practice of a new and historically original kind of hyper-crowd).[11]
In his book Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (1989), Edward Soja describes the hotel as
a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate. Everything imaginable appears to be available in this micro-urb but real places are difficult to find, its spaces confuse an effective cognitive mapping, its pastiche of superficial reflections bewilder co-ordination and encourage submission instead. Entry by land is forbidding to those who carelessly walk but entrance is nevertheless encouraged at many different levels. Once inside, however, it becomes daunting to get out again without bureaucratic assistance. In so many ways, its architecture recapitulates and reflects the sprawling manufactured spaces of Los Angeles.[12]
The hotel is a 33-story building, with no floors numbered "7" or "13"; the top floor is therefore numbered "35". The four elevator banks (each containing three cars for a total of 12) are named by colors and symbols: Red Circle (the only one that goes to "35"; the other three only go to "32"), Yellow Diamond, Green Square, and Blue Triangle. The color-coded system of directions was a later addition, as visitors found the space confusing and hard to navigate.[13]
Several bronze plaques commemorate elevator scenes from three major films:
In the Line of Fire,[14][15] September 1993, "Green Square" elevator
True Lies,[15] September 1993, "Red Circle" and "Yellow Diamond" elevators
Forget Paris,[15] November 1994, "Yellow Diamond" elevator
It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years, including Interstellar,[16] Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (as part of the city of New Chicago), Wonder Woman,[17] Blue Thunder, It's a Living,[18] Starsky & Hutch, L.A. Law, The A-Team, Breathless, Matlock, This Is Spinal Tap, Nick of Time,[19] Rain Man,[19][20] Ruthless People,[19] Logan's Run,[19] My Fellow Americans,[19] Midnight Madness, Moonlighting (TV series), Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Heaven Can Wait, Xanadu, The New Dragnet, Time After Time, Moby Dick,[21] Zoolander,[22] Lethal Weapon 2,[19] The Fantastic Journey[23][24] and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA, Epicenter and San Andreas. The front of the hotel was also featured in the British children’s television series Tots Tv ‘American Adventure’ special where Tilly, Tom and Tiny went to explore a different country and were observing tall buildings and went onto the roof of the hotel to observe the view of Los Angeles.[25] You can see it under construction in the 1975 film The Wilderness Family (released a year before the hotel opened). In cartoon form, the building can be seen in the first shot of Jem in the episode "The Beginning", and in the anime Steins;Gate. In November 1979, the ABC soap opera General Hospital videotaped some on location scenes there dealing with Luke Spencer, played by Anthony Geary who was hired to assassinate Senator Mitch Williams. In 1999, Power Rangers Lost Galaxy used the building as the administration building of the space colony Terra Venture, with Red Ranger Leo falling from the building after a battle with main villain Trakeena.
In 2002, the hotel was the location for a Fear Factor stunt which involved crossing a bridge of plexiglass discs on cables suspended on the lobby's fifth floor.[26] The television series It's a Living was set in a restaurant atop the Bonaventure. The hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior can be seen in Americathon, Mission: Impossible III, Almighty Thor, Hancock, and at the beginning of the Lionel Richie "Dancing on the Ceiling" music video. The building made appearances in the 1991 Kylie Minogue music video Step Back in Time, the 1985 Survivor music video "The Search Is Over", the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the 2012 video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II (in the "Aftermath" multiplayer map) and in the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V with the name "Arcadius Business Center" (having three towers instead of four towers and featuring glass elevator animations).
The hotel was also used as a setting for R&B singer Usher's music video for the 2002 hit single, "U Don't Have to Call". A pivotal scene in the season four (2005) episode "Another Mister Sloane" of the espionage drama Alias took place in the Bonaventure Hotel as well, while it was also featured in season one (2017), episode five of another espionage drama, Counterpart. In 2021, Rihanna's "Savage x Fenty Show Vol. 3" was filmed entirely on location at the hotel.[27][28] The hotel also hosted the first task for the final leg of The Amazing Race 33, which aired in 2022.[26]
In Wichita, April 10-12. The 2014 event was themed inspire, create, innovate. Nearly 350 credit union staff, volunteers, speakers and exhibitors attended.
LONDON - MARCH 12:The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival benefit gala at Dartmouth House on March 12th, 2008 in London. (Photo by Nick Harvey/Human Rights Watch)
SUFFOLK DOWNS - August 5, 2017 - Race 12
ALLOWANCE OPTIONAL CLAIMING - Thoroughbred
FOR THREE YEAR OLDS AND UPWARD WHICH HAVE NEVER WON A RACE OTHER THAN MAIDEN, CLAIMING, OR STARTER,OR STATE BRED OR WHICH HAVE NEVER WON TWO RACES OR CLAIMING PRICE $25,000. Three Year Olds, 120 lbs.; Older, 124 lbs. Non-winners of a race since July 5 Allowed 3 lbs. Claiming Price $25,000 (NW1 X)
About Five Furlongs On The Turf Track Record: (Bishop Ridley - 57.20 - July 19, 1987)
Purse: $45,000
Weather:Cloudy Track:Good
Off at: 5:34 Start: Good for all except 5,6
8 - Abbot (Cancel, Eric)
7 - Eternal Bull (Fox, Kris)
5 - The Zip Zip Man (Pedroza, Brian)
Rumi and I spent the day (01.01.12, the first day of the brand-new year!) at this ship building yard near Dhaka. Amazed to see how our local ship-architects are constructing mega ships…literally with their bare hands. Tried to capture the actions and the faces of those unsung heroes. An incredible experience!!!