In common with all other Vulcans, she was constructed by A V Roe & Co. at its Chadderton, and Woodford plants, and made her first flight, lasting 95 minutes, from Woodford on August 23rd, 1962. After four further test flights, XL426 was collected by an RAF crew and entered service with 83 Squadron at RAF Scampton on September 13th, 1962.

 

The Scampton Wing (Nos. 27, 83 and 617 Squadrons) were at the time in the process of equipping with the Blue Steel stand-off missile. From September 1961, all aircraft delivered to these squadrons were specially modified to carry the new weapon, which was loaded, semi-recessed, in the Vulcan’s bomb-bay.

 

In 83 Squadron markings (MAP/E Taylor)In December 1962, Wing Commander (later Group Captain) John Slessor took over command of 83 Squadron from Wing Commander (later Air Commodore) Ray Davenport. John Slessor selected XL426 as his personal aircraft for his three-year tour, and she proudly bore the squadron commander’s pennant painted below her cockpit. On September 10th, 1963, whilst returning from Goose Bay, Canada, John Slessor flew XL426 to RAF Scampton in 4 hours 5 minutes - an unofficial record, pre-Concorde, for a crossing of the North Atlantic at that time.

 

In April 1964, the centralised servicing was introduced at RAF Scampton, meaning aircraft were no longer assigned to individual units, but instead were ‘pooled’ and assigned to squadrons on a day-by-day basis. XL426 was flown by all three squadrons of the Scampton Wing, which was now was fully operational with Blue Steel.

 

With the transfer of the nuclear deterrent role to the Royal Navy in 1969, Blue Steel was withdrawn and the Scampton squadrons were assigned to the tactical nuclear and conventional bombing roles.

 

Individual unit allocations were resumed in January 1971, and for the next 10 years, XL426 spent most of her time with 617 Squadron, although she also had brief spells with 27 Squadron and 230 Operational Conversion Unit, which had moved to RAF Scampton from RAF Finningley in December 1969.

 

In 1981, XL426 had the dubious distinction of being the 298th and last Vulcan to undergo a major service at RAF St Athan. Completion of the service was marked with a formal hand-over ceremony at which Air-Vice Marshal Richardson, RAF Support Command, and RAF Waddington’s Commanding Officer, Group Captain Warrington, both signed for the aircraft. Also present was Warrant Officer John ‘Bob’ Shillings, one of XL426’s first crew chiefs when she had entered service with 83 Squadron back in 1962.

 

617 Squadron disbanded at the end of 1981 and XL426 was transferred to 50 Squadron at RAF Waddington, making the short flight south to join her new unit on January 4th, 1982. 50 Squadron became the last Vulcan squadron, operating six aircraft as air-to-air tankers until the Vulcan was finally withdrawn from operational service in 1984. XL426 was not converted to a tanker, but was one of three Vulcans retained by the squadron as a B2 to act as a crew trainer, helping to take some of the weight of flying off the shoulders of the already overstretched tankers. She had also been used as a trials aircraft as part of the Vulcan tanker test programme in 1982. XL426 was one of four Vulcans that took part in the Falklands Victory Flypast over London on October 12th, 1982 (although XL426 herself had not played an active role in the war itself). On March 30th, 1984, XL426 had the ultimate accolade of performing 50 Squadron’s last display, in the hands of Squadron Leader Joe L’Estrange, at the squadron’s disbandment ceremony at RAF Waddington.

 

Withdrawal of the Vulcan from operational service did not, however, spell the end of XL426’s flying days. Very much aware of the Vulcan’s tremendous public relations appeal, and already committed to a number of air displays appearances in the upcoming 1984 season, XL426 was kept airworthy (along with XH560 in reserve) for air display purposes. The two aircraft formed what became known as the Vulcan Historical Flight (later the Vulcan Display Flight - VDF), staffed initially entirely by volunteers. Under the command of Squadron Leader (later Group Captain) Bill Burnett, the Flight and XL426 gave their first display at No IX Squadron’s Standard Presentation Parade at RAF Honington on May 23rd, 1984.

 

The Flight went on to give more than 50 displays during the course of the 1984 season, and it was agreed to continue displaying XL426 into 1985. As the 1985 season progressed, a close eye was kept on XL426’s flying hours, as the time when she would require another major service was rapidly approaching. Plans were put in hand to replace her with another aircraft and, eventually, a replacement aircraft -XH558 - was found (retrieved from the fire dump at RAF Marham) and XL426 gave her final display at the RAF Coningsby Open Day on June 14th, 1986.

 

XL426 was put up for sale during the summer of 1986 and agreement was reached with a French consortium for her purchase. Meanwhile, the VDF was temporarily relocated to RAF Scampton to allow runway resurfacing to take place at Waddington, XL426 making the short flight back to her former home on July 27th. The French deal subsequently fell through and XL426 was sold to Roy Jacobsen, who had purchased another Vulcan (XM655) two years earlier. XL426 was delivered to her new owner at Southend Airport on December 19th, 1986, following a 20 minute flight from RAF Scampton. On arrival at Southend, XL426 had amassed 6236 hours flying time, having made over 1800 separate flights.

 

Roy Jacobsen had ambitious plans to operate XL426 as a civilian display aircraft, under the auspices of an organisation he had formed called the Vulcan Memorial Flight. XL426 was entered onto the British civil aircraft register as G-VJET and approaches were made to a number of potential sponsors. However, the sums required to carry out the necessary servicing work and finance the aircraft’s ongoing operation could not be found and XL426 remained dormant at Southend. In 1990, local enthusiasts formed the Vulcan Memorial Flight Supporters Club (VMFSC) to help promote Mr Jacobsen’s continuing efforts to return XL426 to the air, and to also take care of the aircraft’s continued preservation.

 

The VMFSC took over ownership of XL426 in July 1993 and subsequently re-formed as a registered charity, the Vulcan Restoration Trust.

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recently I ve repeated again and again the bridge of " take a bow". It's so great meaning.

 

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Dutchman's breeches

Wikipedia says....

 

"Height is 15–40 cm. The root is a cluster of small pink to white teardrop-shaped bulblets (more precisely, miniature tubers). Leaves are 10–36 cm long and 4–18 cm broad, with a petiole up to 15 cm long; they are trifoliate, with finely divided leaflets.

 

Flowers are usually white, rarely pink, 1–2 cm long, and are borne in early spring on flower stalks 12–25 cm long. The pistil of a pollinated flower develops into a long pod, narrowed to a point on both ends, 9–13 millimetres (0.4–0.5 in) long.

 

The pod splits in half when the seeds are ripe. The seeds are kidney-shaped, with a faint netlike pattern. Each one has a fleshy organ called an elaiosome that attracts ants.

 

Dutchman's breeches is one of many plants whose seeds are spread by ants, a process called myrmecochory. The ants take the seeds to their nest, where they eat the elaiosomes, and put the seeds in their nest debris, where they are protected until they germinate. They also get the added bonus of growing in a medium made richer by the ant nest debris.

 

The leaves and flower stems die back in late spring after the seed has ripened, and the bulblets remain dormant through the summer. In the fall, starch in the bulblets is converted to sugar, and the beginnings of the next spring's leaves and flowers develop below ground.

 

The western populations have sometimes been separated as Dicentra occidentalis on the basis of often somewhat coarser growth, but do not differ from many eastern plants in the Appalachians."

  

On a daily basis I get talked down to by customers, I don't get the respect I deserve, and I have to prove myself, prove that I'm just as good of a tattoo artist as the GUYS I work with. All this, just because I'm a girl.

 

Journaling, "I hate that on a daily basis our customers assume that I'm just a stupid front girl, Im the TATTOO ARTIST!!"

 

tfl! :)

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The basis for this photo was found in the March 2001 edition of AIRPOWER magazine.

 

The North American A-5 Vigilante was an American carrier-based supersonic bomber designed and built by North American Aviation for the United States Navy. It set several world records, including long-distance speed and altitude records. Prior to 1962 unification of Navy and Air Force designations, it was designated the A3J Vigilante.

 

The aircraft only replaced the Douglas A-3 Skywarrior as the Navy's primary nuclear-strike aircraft briefly, however its RA-5C tactical strike reconnaissance variant saw extensive service during the Vietnam War.

  

The reconnaissance version of the Vigilante, the RA-5C, had slightly greater wing area and added a long canoe-shaped fairing under the fuselage for a multi-sensor reconnaissance pack. This added an APD-7 side-looking airborne radar (SLAR), AAS-21 infrared line scanner, and camera packs, as well as improved electronic countermeasures. An AN/ALQ-61 electronic intelligence system could also be carried. The RA-5C retained the AN/ASB-12 bombing system, and could, in theory, carry weapons, although it never did in service. Later-build RA-5Cs had more powerful J79-10 engines with afterburning thrust of 17,900 lbf (80 kN). The reconnaissance Vigilante weighed almost five tons more than the strike version with almost the same thrust and an only modestly enlarged wing. These changes reduced its acceleration and climb rate, though it remained fast in level flight.

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#26 -- Comical -- 119 Pictures in 2019

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The Bicycle Chronicles Chapter Four Part Four of The Flyte

In truth I had not anticipated the degree of excitement this 1939 CCM Flyte would ignite in some folks who attend the shop on a regular basis. That phrase The Holy Grail is an apt description for some, actually for many steeped in bicycle lore than myself. As mentioned my interests in bicycles is a relatively new thing, having been about ten years give or take since I first began tinkering. When I look back on the history of this small home based shop called Lumpy Bikes it marvels me how far my knowledge has grown and how many folks I have met in that period of time. If I have not said so prior in these writings, “it is the people one meets in this game that make it what it is, and for the most part the people are awesome.”

The very next day at the usual time, 1PM sharp (which is when I open) I pulled the Flyte out of the Honda Element where it had spent the night. It sure looked like a pile of poorly painted metal pieces, as the scratches on the frame to me were like the war wounds of a well travelled soldier. Lying there in the back of the truck I was reminded of a horse in a way that was quite arthritic and had difficulty in getting up on its legs. We have had lots of old bikes here at the shop, the first was also a 1939 double bar CCM that my friends Don Schmidt and Carol Trainor had given me in the early years of Lumpy Bikes, I was proud of that bike also as it was one of the first vintage bikes to go on display above the shop entrance, I fitted it with a period correct childs rear carrier and a front full size butchers basket, the original saddle though worn and torn was made of leather, the silver four corner badge was intact. It was a sad day when I phoned my friend Mario in Vaughan to see if he would purchase the bike as we had run into some financial difficulty that best remain secret. When Don owned the bike he used it to drive around the campus at Buffalo University, then he took the bike to Washington DC where he had one of his first high school teaching jobs, a lifes historical patina shrouded that bike in memories and you could feel it.

Later in the afternoon my friend Pat Johnston wandered over, he was about the only person who knew I had gone to get the Flyte in Quebec. With our grandson Mackenzies assistance we hoisted the bike up to the wooden mounting pegs at the shop entrance for all to see, my heart pumped in doing so as I am sure did the hearts of Pat and Mac. There was a steady parade of onlookers over the next few days to see the famous bike. Some clients didn’t quite get it, so every time someone came I would re tell the story of the bike, the history behind it and point out the curved forks and chainstays that were only found on this bike. Putting the bike on display was my intention all along, I don’t recall if I had planned to do anymore with it, I do know that I realized it had much more value than what I paid for it, which was $400. Though we must take into consideration my expense to get the bike, give or take $175, if you include my sandwiches and packed lunch. As well we need to put a value on the time required to fetch the bike in Quebec, and that is where I often argue with those who put a monetary value on their time, like an hourly wage. I don’t do that, I place no value on my time in that sense, but I do place a great value in non monetary terms in the pleasure derived from these pursuits.

Years back an old acquaintance was always, still is today, pre occupied with the word profit. Julie and I sold a small property near Hastings once and he had to know to the penny what we sold it for, how much the real estate fees were, how much the township charged for transfer fees and how much the lawyer charged to administer the sale. It would have been easy for me to tell him where to go, but I was diplomatic, and I told him all the numbers and he said, “well you only made $5,000 dollars on the property in two years after all those deductions.” To which I replied, ‘we lived in this beautiful area along this fine historic river in this historic town for two years, we entertained hundreds of people had rave like corn roasts, caught bushels of fish, behaved like madmen and women as the campfires burned weekend after weekend you cannot put a price on this joy, if we profited somewhat that is fine but it was not our intention, our intention was to enjoy life.’

He doesn’t quiz me much these days on my personal matters. Though I am reminded of another time, we had bought our first Toronto house and it needed a lot of work which was somewhat challenging for a man who previously had never owned a hammer. That summer we took a holiday up to the Wawa area, using an old Chevy station wagon sold to me by Verns cousin Ronnie, that car burned more oil than gas! Besides the wagon we pulled along a 16 foot cedar strip boat we had traded a car for in Hastings, it had an old brown coloured Johnson Seahorse 18HP motor that was easy enough to start and pushed the boat along at a good enough pace once the boat planed out. We camped up on the French River where one morning as the haze left the water I saw a fourty pound Muskie jump into the air right at the tip of the island Julie and I were camping on, what a sight. Endless casts did not produce a strike, We did see some Americans trolling for pickerel near Schells camp and they pulled up a pair of ten pounders to show us. We packed up and headed north where we discovered at Blind River that we had left the tent Octopus joint, the joint that all the tent poles stick into at the Island so we made our way to the Sault where we grabbed a motel for the night along with a spaghetti dinner and a tent store provide the piece we needed to go on to a cottage less lake just south of Wawa in a provincial park, the names will come to me. We camped there for three days, now I remember, Lake Michipicoten, and we could not get the boat out of the water with the wagon. No wonder our luggage was quite heavy, Gisele my mom had given us a matched six piece set of tan vinyl luggage for our first wedding anniversary and we hauled our stuff around in it like tourists, the luggage in the boat, thankfully two guys with a 4X4 truck hooked up to our trailer hitch and pulled the heavy boat out or we would still be there. We headed home as I recall via a town in the interior of Ontario called Chapleau, as we passed through the place we remarked to each other how desolate it was, upon leaving the town after a small gander we were about a mile out of town on a highway heading south when we noticed a car stopped in the middle of the road up ahead and something spread out on the pavement. Well, if it wasn’t a man taking a nap, and he was really out, turns out he was more drunk than sleepy and we urged him up and off the road along with his car.

We arrived back at our little home in Toronto’s hardscrabble Mount Dennis area, our second car a patched up late 60s Ford Falcon wagon was in the driveway, my friend was in the house smoking a cigar, our big german shepherd named Zorba greeted us. My buddy told me they almost lost the dog on a trip he took with the wagon up to Georgian Bay, the dog got away, but they eventually found him, they were not supposed to use the car except in an emergency. Then my buddy, my good friend told me that I only had $5,200 in my bank account. I said to him, “how do you know that?” to which he replied, “your bank book must have fallen out of your dresser drawer in the spare bedroom.” I was not impressed, I didn’t say anything at the time, nor have I ever but I never forgot that intrusion on our privacy and what I perceived to be a jealousy of my good fortune to be able to save some money at that time in life.

Getting back to the CCM Flyte. Without the help of Pat Johnston that bike would still be a pile of rubble. On the Tuesday afternoon August 21 Pat and I put the bike on the mechanics stand and Pat used sandpaper and a file to scratch the paint away to reveal the serial number which is 2C7461. The placement of the letter C designates this bike to have been manufactured in 1939 as per the charts issued by CCM. At that time the idea to restore the bike was spoken by Pat and I, I recall having to give this a lot of thought as I had a shop to run and not a lot of spare time to being a restoration this time of year, the freshness of the bike also came into play, I can say that the enthusiasm in Pat about the restoration idea was far greater than mine. We discussed colour ideas something that regardless of the project is a difficult subject for me as I do not visualize very well. I mean, I can put an idea in my head to a degree but I have known for some time that it takes time for the idea to set in so that my mind has a clear idea of what lies ahead. Over the next few days, I spent quite some time thinking about how the bike could look in different colours and different colour combinations. In the meantime, the regulars came by to look at the bike, CCM Dave was pretty impressed with it, I even tinkered with the idea of going partners on the bike with him, but we disagreed right off the bat about what colour it should or could be when restored and that kaboshed the partnership idea. It was Daves wife Charmaine who had whispered in my ear at the Lang Transportation Day bike show that “Dave would love a Flyte” and I think in a subliminal way those words influenced me in my hasty decision to go to Quebec for the Flyte in the first place. My notes show me that we did not put the bike up until August 25, I recall grandson Mackenzie assisting Pat and I to raise it onto the shop canopy where bikes are hung for display. That Saturday a big collector of vintage road bikes dropped over to check out my goods Jeff Lackey who lives in Lindsay, his bikes are too die for. He looked at the Flyte up there, he knew I had been looking for one for some time and he said, “I wouldn’t touch it, it’s beautiful the way it is, just leave it like that.” His point was not lost on me however, still early in the game I was having thoughts of my own about what to do with the Flyte and how to manage the restoration during a busy time of the bike season. The most difficult thoughts were the ones about choosing a colour or colour scheme to use on the bike. In the meantime, Pat had taken an old fork of mine to the Flashfire powder coat company in Courtice to have it powder coated in their chrome colour. We had to do this in order to determine for ourselves how the chrome on the bike which included the handlebars, curved fork, stem, crank and crank arms would look. My colour ideas were all over the place, my thoughts went from mauve with cream white fenders, to fire engine red with black fenders and chainguard, I couldn’t sleep at night thinking about the colours. Finally when the fork came back from the powder coaters looking OK, it looked more aluminum coloured than chrome to me not great but much better than it had looked before coating. Having parts chromed is a sport for the wealthy, recently Pat told me about a friend of his who had two rims and a handlebar chromed for the restoration of his vintage Raleigh Robin Hood bicycle, the cost was $500…OUCH! So you can see the economy I had in mind for restoring the bike came into play. The estimate from the coating company to sandblast and coat the bike was in the $200 range which included the chrome parts done their way, I figured that was something I could afford. In keeping with the tradition of the last owner of the Flyte, the priest in Quebec City I decided to have it painted jet black except the chrome parts and the chainguard which would be close to chrome in colour. All along I had seen this bike as a classic example of Design Art in which the object became available in this instance in the 1930s and I may be wrong but I think the design by Harvey Peace was ahead of its time. The unfinished Flytes that I had seen were quite drab looking, I didn’t like them at all. I knew I could improve on the look of the bike by the use of a dynamic colour, the one I chose was Jet Black.

I approached Pat with the idea of him taking the bike apart and reassembling it for a fee of $100. He agreed and said “I would have done it for nothing” I knew that Pat was capable of the job as well he was very enthusiastic about the restoration. The bike came down after only being up there a week where it had been admired by several shoppers, it did not draw crowds though just the folks who would have stopped by in any case to look at our wares. There is a photograph taken on September 7 of the Flyte in pieces sitting on one of my work tables at the outdoor shop. Pat took the bike to his house and broke it down. While doing so he discovered that a part of the crank side crank arm was broken, it was a critical piece that protruded into the crank ring to turn the crank mechanisim. Not to worry he hand made a replacement piece of steel on his lathe and took the pieces to a company that had done lots of work for him in the past Bruce Fabricating, the new repair was out of site and probably better than new. How the bike managed to function without this piece can only be explained by thinking the crank arm and crank were so tightly attached that the two pieces in a way welded into each other forming a bond and allowing the crank to turn the chain which in turn caused the back wheel to turn. Some proof of that statement lies in the fact that Pat had to take the crank to a reputable shop in downtown Peterborough called Spokes and Pedals where the owner a man who has worked on bikes steadily for over fourty years Dave Friese found the proper tool and long pry bar to remove the inner nut on the crank. That crank problem was one of the biggest surprises encountered in the process. I took the frame to the powder coating factory in Courtice on the edge of Oshawa and was told it would be up to two weeks before it would be ready. In the meantime I had time to go over the rims and well I must say I was quite surprised, but I should not have been given the amount of rust found on the rear rim to discover that the rim itself had rotted through in three or four places at the juncture with the spokes, probably the area of the rim that had sat in the snow while attached to that church fence for some years in Quebec City. Rims of this style are not readily available. Earlier that season I had given a bike to a street person to use an old CCM with rough paint and a decent set of rims. I located that person and persuaded them to give me the bike back and trade for a more modern mountain bike with gears in good condition. The trade was advantageous to both of us and I was very pleased to have the correct rims to complete the Flyte build with. The rims are chrome plated Westwood style with a red pinstripe in the middle, I will know better next time a pair comes in and set them aside for a special build. Earlier that summer myself and Little Ronnie Williams had spent some hours cleaning that pair of rims up of the rust that had accumulated on them over the years, condition wise they looked in eight out of ten shape. I recalled CCM Dave seeing those rims being cleaned, they came off a 30s CCM ladies bike that no one wanted to give me $75 for. I told Dave that he could have bought the entire bike for less than a hundred dollars, that old bike had sat there in the side storage area for over a year as it had been donated along with others by Mario the collector from King City who had become my benefactor. Besides the rims a proper head badge came from another of Marios bikes that we used on the Flyte rebuild. Things were falling in place, the rims, the crank repair, the colour of the bike and the chrome, cream coloured tires were ordered, we took the red mini crystal ball tail light off of a vintage 1938 Eatons Glider, a set of nice clean Gibson style pedals were found. The frame and parts were glowing when we picked them up at the powder coaters. The fellow who did the powder coating told me he had worked extra to get the bike parts to look as good as possible considering the degree of pitting he found on the handlebars. That same day Pat came over and admired the painted parts and took everything to his house for reassembly. I can’t say enough about the care and thoughtfulness displayed by Pat in this regard, he worked on this build as if it was his own. He used many parts form his arsenal of shiny nuts and bolts to attach the fenders and chain guard to the frame that now looked like a million dollars. Not only did he clean the hubs he took them apart and serviced them with new grease ensuring that they would work like new. On September 23 I got a call from Pat to come pick the bike up, it was ready. Wide smiles grace our faces the day his wife Mary took photos of the two of us with the refurbished bicycle in the back yard area of he and his wife Marys home we were pleased with the outcome, I slid the bike into my truck and took it home. The next day CCM Dave came by and he got to ride the bike, I told him to take it downtown and show it off, his smile was wide as well. The bike he said rode OK, it pulled a bit to one side and we found the front rim to need a bit of truing. On Sept 26 John Cisco the man who was second to point out the bike to me in Quebec City came by to exchange some vintage pedals, he posed with the bike, he said “Velos Roy, the shop you bought it from have been very helpful to me with my old bike ever since you bought the Flyte.” That was nice to hear.

For finishing touches on the Flyte I chose the 700c size Cream Schwalbe tires, they looked outstanding. For grips I used a pair of bullet style Bell black grips found at a discount price at a Winners store. The original Mesinger brand leather saddle was set aside for future restoration, I chose to use a new black leather Brooks B17 with a matching Brooks black leather tool bag attached to the back of the saddle. I believe the colour coordination, the use of black in the accessories was key to the overerall finished look of the bike. I was quite pleased.

A couple of times Pat and I discussed having a custom Lumpy Bikes sign made to fit between inside the frame of the bicycle. I had done this before with a Pashley Butchers Bike that I used as an advertisement for the shop some years back. I had thought to have the words lumpy bikes put on the sign, a short description of the bike, its age 1939, the manufacturer CCM, and words stating the restoration was done by Pat Johnston and myself. That never got off the ground, October is a busy month at this shop as we are prone to start thinking about moving downstairs to the indoor shop. Every day for two weeks or so I would pull the Flyte out from behind the garage where it was safely covered and put it out in the driveway for all to see myself in particular. Folks would drop over to look at bikes, to talk about bikes and I would have my words honed to share with them about the history of this bike. Mike Taylor the photographer also a bike mechanic was keen to take photos of me dressed as a Jesuit priest wearing a wide brimmed clergy had over by the black wrought iron fences of the Little Lake Cemetery. At night I would carefully put the bike back to its sleeping area and make darn sure the gate was locked at night. There is more work than I care to think about to make the shift downstairs, it is overwhelming. Our grandson Mackenzie is a god send in that he hauls the boxes of parts and cleaners box after box of tools and parts and what not down there for me and I take a day to set the new shop up, happy to know I can still work on bikes everyday in the cooler months. I would not say the Flyte was ignored as it had been brought into the house and installed above the desk replacing a $5,000 bike that had been bought as Industrial ART a Giant XTC Team bike with exquisite parts such as hydraulic disc brakes, Mavic Crossmax Rims, a bike that was strictly Eye Candy that had been built by a professional mechanic in Belleville at Dougs Bikes to be used as a commuter. I had seen the bike for sale on Kijiji and put an offer in right away and to my surprise another offer faltered and I found myself driving to Port Hope to meet the owner/builder and bring the bike home, it was in mint condition and was as Bling a bike as I had seen. The XTC went into the locked garage and the fabled CCM Flyte went above the office desk, this was October 26.

When the colder weather sets in here in Ontario it is normal for the bike trade to slow down as well. Sales that may run in the 25-35 bikes a month sold in the months of May to September slow down as well to maybe ten bikes in October and if you are lucky five bikes in November and fewer in December. With this your cashflow also stops, money just stops coming in and any smart bike seller will have salted some coins away to pay himself a wage in the down months from November to March while continuing to build bikes for the upcoming season. I never could figure out a winter gig to compensate when the bikes stop. Other shops I have run like the restaurant slowed down in the winter but there was still some trade from the locals. The Gange business ran year round. At one time I was offered to purchase a complete ice skate sharpening line of equipment at a very fair price. This would have entailed me renovating the garage to accommodate the equipment and providing a room for customers to wait while I sharpened the skates as some will want to wait. I never took the idea, I gave it lots of thought I just did not feel interested in this sideline and I knew that two shops in town did this in the winter and I witness the cash register singing at one of the shops run by my friend Ben Logan of Fontaine Source for Sports. These days, ideally I would be spending my winters in Thailand or some other exotic location, my feet in a hammock, sipping on long cool drinks through paper straws while girls in colourful sarongs wave palm leaves over my body to keep me cool. We just don’t make enough cash to enable such a change of life. Now that Julia is retired we could discuss liquidating some assets and changing our lifestyle by taking up residence in a less expensive area and this area Peterborough is half the expense of living in our home city of Toronto. Cape Breton comes to mind from time to time, but like some friends have pointed out, “you will miss your family” and they are right.

I try to understand the circumstances around the eventual sale of the Flyte on January 7, 2019. I know my books showed that the winter season was unusually quiet, that from the end of October to the 7th of January I had only moved 7 pieces one of which was a used Park Tool Stand. An email came in from my friend Dale Mcillmoyle who is a retired OPP seargeant and a fellow bike nut/mechanic who lives with his wife Cindy near Campbellford, Ontario. Dale said in his note that a friend of his Tom Huehn was interested in my Flyte as Dale had forwarded him photos of the finished bike some months back. By surprise I got a phone call on Jan 7 from Tom who said he wanted to come look at the bike, this was around 9:30 in the morning, I politely asked him to come back around 11:30 to give me some time to get dressed. Promptly at that time a knock on the door signalled Toms arrival, Benson the little dog barked as he is prone to do, we greeted, shook hands , I brought Tom into the office where he asked me an assortment of questions about the bike. I showed him the bikes history via photos on the computer, photos of every stage of the rebuild, of the trip to Quebec, the reception when the bike was brought home, by the end of the photo essay he knew as much about the Flyte as I did. Tom asked if we could bring the bike down from where it hung which we did together, he did not care for what he called Powder Coat Chrome, but he knew that was an economic measure that we undertook to keep our costs down on the build. Besides I would casually say to him, ‘the new owner can have that redone if he likes when he purchases the bike’. An offer was made that was to low and I actually think I could have pushed things higher had I felt like it but I was not in a great position to turn down $1,700.00 on a cold day in January from out of the blue. We shook hands on the deal, Tom added a $50 referral fee for Dale which Dale shared with me this spring. So I call the price we sold it for $1,750.00. If I wished I could go over the numbers as to what the bike took to get, to restore, to pay Pat the pittance of $100 for his efforts. I think I came out on top in the $650 range and I can tell you, that is one hell of a profit on a bicycle. My friend Mario who owns by the way 15 Flytes had shown some interest in the bike told me what it was worth and I have to go along with what an expert tells me on these matters. Is Tom happy with the bike? I don’t know, Dale had mentioned he might take it to one of the big American shows to sell, but what I have to say about that is “when you purchase something it is your prerogative to do with it as you wish” and I wish Tom all the best in his choices.

Do I miss the Flyte, I miss it more for my friends Pat Johnston and CCM Dave than I miss it for myself. I always have neat, old romantic looking bikes around here, what I do miss is the thrill of the buy, the pursuit of the bike, how it was revealed to me in of all places from a fellow bike lover in Britain and then a day or two later by someone whom I know from this shop. Someday, I feel in my bones that another Flyte will come my way and I will be given the opportunity to make it as beautiful as this one.

On the day Tom came to buy the Flyte two friends happened to be driving by the house and they saw me bring the CCM down the stairs to wait for Tom who had gone to the bank. The friends were Gene whose Mercedes EBike I had helped locate after it had been stolen in the fall and he was with CCM Dave, they both posed with the bike on the bench, Dave knew I had sold the bike, what other reason would it have been outside that cold day in January. It took me a bit of time to let Pat Johnston know I sold the bike, I am quite sure he was choked up when he heard the news as I would be…we both have friends with deep pockets and storage areas where they can show their trophies off. Over the years there have been at least ten stellar bikes that I would love to have today, the CCM Flyte was unique for its day and remains unique today, I wonder why no other manufacturer has duplicated the style, are patents holding others back from replicating it? Thanks for your time, hope you enjoyed this ride!

 

 

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Davlos (Greek: Δαυλός, Turkish: Kaplıca) is a village in the Famagusta District of Cyprus, located on the northern coast, east of Kyrenia, near Kantara Castle. It is under de facto control of Northern Cyprus, forming part of its İskele District.

 

The name Davlos is of Ancient Greek provenance δαυλός, having multiple meanings, amongst them "firewood", "half-burnt wood" and "forested place"; it is probably the last that forms the basis of the name of the village, as the area of the village was likely heavily forested in antiquity. A similar etymology has been observed in the ancient Greek town of Daulis, which was similarly founded in a forested area. Nearchos Clerides conjectured that the village would have been founded in pre-Christian times, possibly by refugees from mainland Greece. The village was recorded in medieval maps under the name "Davlo", and was mentioned in Ottoman documents under the name "Davloz".

 

Historically, a monastery dedicated to Saint Nicholas had been present around the village. Clerides noted in 1961 that the monastery had completely disappeared a long time ago, and all the land in its ownership was now owned by the Archbishopric.

 

The village has historically always been populated exclusively by Greek Cypriots, with the exception of 14 Turkish Cypriots recorded in the 1921 census. The 1831 census, recording only adult males, showed a population of 1831. The full population was recorded as 392 in 1891, this gradually increased to a maximum of 662 in 1931, after which the population of the village declined to 342 in 1973.

 

During the 1974 conflict, the majority of the Greek Cypriot population initially did not flee and stayed in the village until 1975. The 270 remaining inhabitants were expelled in the summer of 1975. The village was resettled with Turkish settlers from the Çaykara district of the Trabzon Province, particularly from the village of Uzuntarla. These new inhabitants had previously been settled in the village of Akanthou in the spring of 1975, but moved to Davlos upon the expulsion of the Greek Cypriots in the summer.

 

The coastal areas of the village are part of the Tatlısu Special Environmental Protection Area.

 

Owing to its location between the mountains and the sea, its beach and the historical presence of thermal springs, the village started to develop a tourism industry before the 1974 conflict, and was home to a coastal hotel at that time. The tourism industry of the village was one of the most severely affected in the years following the war.

 

Today, the village is home to a hotel, which expanded towards the south of the former main road with bungalows in the 2000s, a restaurant, and a caravan site.

 

Davlos was a part of the Büyükkonuk (Komi Kebir) Municipality between 2008 and 2022. With the reorganisation of local authorities in 2022, it was transferred to the İskele (Trikomo) Municipality.

 

The current villagers or their ancestors had mostly been inhabitants of the Uzuntarla village in the Çaykara district of the Trabzon Province in Turkey until the 1970s. These settlers were Pontic Greek speakers (in addition to Turkish) and are thus able to interact with the displaced Greek Cypriots visiting their former homes in their native language. The villagers are conservative and religious Muslims by Cypriot standards, and Davlos is the only settlement in Cyprus where there is no sale of alcohol. The village is physically separated from the tourist resort by the main road, and alcohol is sold at the tourist areas. The villagers have, however, become less religious since being settled, with a corresponding decline in mosque attendance. For instance, when upon their arrival the community had 20 people with the distinction of being hafız, i.e. being able to recite the entirety of the Quran by heart. Since 1975, no new villagers have become hafız and indeed some have forgotten parts of the Quran.

 

Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. It is recognised only by Turkey, and its territory is considered by all other states to be part of the Republic of Cyprus.

 

Northern Cyprus extends from the tip of the Karpass Peninsula in the northeast to Morphou Bay, Cape Kormakitis and its westernmost point, the Kokkina exclave in the west. Its southernmost point is the village of Louroujina. A buffer zone under the control of the United Nations stretches between Northern Cyprus and the rest of the island and divides Nicosia, the island's largest city and capital of both sides.

 

A coup d'état in 1974, performed as part of an attempt to annex the island to Greece, prompted the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. This resulted in the eviction of much of the north's Greek Cypriot population, the flight of Turkish Cypriots from the south, and the partitioning of the island, leading to a unilateral declaration of independence by the north in 1983. Due to its lack of recognition, Northern Cyprus is heavily dependent on Turkey for economic, political and military support.

 

Attempts to reach a solution to the Cyprus dispute have been unsuccessful. The Turkish Army maintains a large force in Northern Cyprus with the support and approval of the TRNC government, while the Republic of Cyprus, the European Union as a whole, and the international community regard it as an occupation force. This military presence has been denounced in several United Nations Security Council resolutions.

 

Northern Cyprus is a semi-presidential, democratic republic with a cultural heritage incorporating various influences and an economy that is dominated by the services sector. The economy has seen growth through the 2000s and 2010s, with the GNP per capita more than tripling in the 2000s, but is held back by an international embargo due to the official closure of the ports in Northern Cyprus by the Republic of Cyprus. The official language is Turkish, with a distinct local dialect being spoken. The vast majority of the population consists of Sunni Muslims, while religious attitudes are mostly moderate and secular. Northern Cyprus is an observer state of ECO and OIC under the name "Turkish Cypriot State", PACE under the name "Turkish Cypriot Community", and Organization of Turkic States with its own name.

 

Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, marked mid-20th century Cyprus. These included the Cyprus Emergency of 1955–59 during British rule, the post-independence Cyprus crisis of 1963–64, and the Cyprus crisis of 1967. Hostilities culminated in the 1974 de facto division of the island along the Green Line following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The region has been relatively peaceful since then, but the Cyprus dispute has continued, with various attempts to solve it diplomatically having been generally unsuccessful.

 

Cyprus, an island lying in the eastern Mediterranean, hosted a population of Greeks and Turks (four-fifths and one-fifth, respectively), who lived under British rule in the late nineteenth-century and the first half of the twentieth-century. Christian Orthodox Church of Cyprus played a prominent political role among the Greek Cypriot community, a privilege that it acquired during the Ottoman Empire with the employment of the millet system, which gave the archbishop an unofficial ethnarch status.

 

The repeated rejections by the British of Greek Cypriot demands for enosis, union with Greece, led to armed resistance, organised by the National Organization of Cypriot Struggle, or EOKA. EOKA, led by the Greek-Cypriot commander George Grivas, systematically targeted British colonial authorities. One of the effects of EOKA's campaign was to alter the Turkish position from demanding full reincorporation into Turkey to a demand for taksim (partition). EOKA's mission and activities caused a "Cretan syndrome" (see Turkish Resistance Organisation) within the Turkish Cypriot community, as its members feared that they would be forced to leave the island in such a case as had been the case with Cretan Turks. As such, they preferred the continuation of British colonial rule and then taksim, the division of the island. Due to the Turkish Cypriots' support for the British, EOKA's leader, Georgios Grivas, declared them to be enemies. The fact that the Turks were a minority was, according to Nihat Erim, to be addressed by the transfer of thousands of Turks from mainland Turkey so that Greek Cypriots would cease to be the majority. When Erim visited Cyprus as the Turkish representative, he was advised by Field Marshal Sir John Harding, the then Governor of Cyprus, that Turkey should send educated Turks to settle in Cyprus.

 

Turkey actively promoted the idea that on the island of Cyprus two distinctive communities existed, and sidestepped its former claim that "the people of Cyprus were all Turkish subjects". In doing so, Turkey's aim to have self-determination of two to-be equal communities in effect led to de jure partition of the island.[citation needed] This could be justified to the international community against the will of the majority Greek population of the island. Dr. Fazil Küçük in 1954 had already proposed Cyprus be divided in two at the 35° parallel.

 

Lindley Dan, from Notre Dame University, spotted the roots of intercommunal violence to different visions among the two communities of Cyprus (enosis for Greek Cypriots, taksim for Turkish Cypriots). Also, Lindlay wrote that "the merging of church, schools/education, and politics in divisive and nationalistic ways" had played a crucial role in creation of havoc in Cyprus' history. Attalides Michael also pointed to the opposing nationalisms as the cause of the Cyprus problem.

 

By the mid-1950's, the "Cyprus is Turkish" party, movement, and slogan gained force in both Cyprus and Turkey. In a 1954 editorial, Turkish Cypriot leader Dr. Fazil Kuchuk expressed the sentiment that the Turkish youth had grown up with the idea that "as soon as Great Britain leaves the island, it will be taken over by the Turks", and that "Turkey cannot tolerate otherwise". This perspective contributed to the willingness of Turkish Cypriots to align themselves with the British, who started recruiting Turkish Cypriots into the police force that patrolled Cyprus to fight EOKA, a Greek Cypriot nationalist organisation that sought to rid the island of British rule.

 

EOKA targeted colonial authorities, including police, but Georgios Grivas, the leader of EOKA, did not initially wish to open up a new front by fighting Turkish Cypriots and reassured them that EOKA would not harm their people. In 1956, some Turkish Cypriot policemen were killed by EOKA members and this provoked some intercommunal violence in the spring and summer, but these attacks on policemen were not motivated by the fact that they were Turkish Cypriots.

 

However, in January 1957, Grivas changed his policy as his forces in the mountains became increasingly pressured by the British Crown forces. In order to divert the attention of the Crown forces, EOKA members started to target Turkish Cypriot policemen intentionally in the towns, so that Turkish Cypriots would riot against the Greek Cypriots and the security forces would have to be diverted to the towns to restore order. The killing of a Turkish Cypriot policeman on 19 January, when a power station was bombed, and the injury of three others, provoked three days of intercommunal violence in Nicosia. The two communities targeted each other in reprisals, at least one Greek Cypriot was killed and the British Army was deployed in the streets. Greek Cypriot stores were burned and their neighbourhoods attacked. Following the events, the Greek Cypriot leadership spread the propaganda that the riots had merely been an act of Turkish Cypriot aggression. Such events created chaos and drove the communities apart both in Cyprus and in Turkey.

 

On 22 October 1957 Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot replaced Sir John Harding as the British Governor of Cyprus. Foot suggested five to seven years of self-government before any final decision. His plan rejected both enosis and taksim. The Turkish Cypriot response to this plan was a series of anti-British demonstrations in Nicosia on 27 and 28 January 1958 rejecting the proposed plan because the plan did not include partition. The British then withdrew the plan.

 

In 1957, Black Gang, a Turkish Cypriot pro-taksim paramilitary organisation, was formed to patrol a Turkish Cypriot enclave, the Tahtakale district of Nicosia, against activities of EOKA. The organisation later attempted to grow into a national scale, but failed to gain public support.

 

By 1958, signs of dissatisfaction with the British increased on both sides, with a group of Turkish Cypriots forming Volkan (later renamed to the Turkish Resistance Organisation) paramilitary group to promote partition and the annexation of Cyprus to Turkey as dictated by the Menderes plan. Volkan initially consisted of roughly 100 members, with the stated aim of raising awareness in Turkey of the Cyprus issue and courting military training and support for Turkish Cypriot fighters from the Turkish government.

 

In June 1958, the British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, was expected to propose a plan to resolve the Cyprus issue. In light of the new development, the Turks rioted in Nicosia to promote the idea that Greek and Turkish Cypriots could not live together and therefore any plan that did not include partition would not be viable. This violence was soon followed by bombing, Greek Cypriot deaths and looting of Greek Cypriot-owned shops and houses. Greek and Turkish Cypriots started to flee mixed population villages where they were a minority in search of safety. This was effectively the beginning of the segregation of the two communities. On 7 June 1958, a bomb exploded at the entrance of the Turkish Embassy in Cyprus. Following the bombing, Turkish Cypriots looted Greek Cypriot properties. On 26 June 1984, the Turkish Cypriot leader, Rauf Denktaş, admitted on British channel ITV that the bomb was placed by the Turks themselves in order to create tension. On 9 January 1995, Rauf Denktaş repeated his claim to the famous Turkish newspaper Milliyet in Turkey.

 

The crisis reached a climax on 12 June 1958, when eight Greeks, out of an armed group of thirty five arrested by soldiers of the Royal Horse Guards on suspicion of preparing an attack on the Turkish quarter of Skylloura, were killed in a suspected attack by Turkish Cypriot locals, near the village of Geunyeli, having been ordered to walk back to their village of Kondemenos.

 

After the EOKA campaign had begun, the British government successfully began to turn the Cyprus issue from a British colonial problem into a Greek-Turkish issue. British diplomacy exerted backstage influence on the Adnan Menderes government, with the aim of making Turkey active in Cyprus. For the British, the attempt had a twofold objective. The EOKA campaign would be silenced as quickly as possible, and Turkish Cypriots would not side with Greek Cypriots against the British colonial claims over the island, which would thus remain under the British. The Turkish Cypriot leadership visited Menderes to discuss the Cyprus issue. When asked how the Turkish Cypriots should respond to the Greek Cypriot claim of enosis, Menderes replied: "You should go to the British foreign minister and request the status quo be prolonged, Cyprus to remain as a British colony". When the Turkish Cypriots visited the British Foreign Secretary and requested for Cyprus to remain a colony, he replied: "You should not be asking for colonialism at this day and age, you should be asking for Cyprus be returned to Turkey, its former owner".

 

As Turkish Cypriots began to look to Turkey for protection, Greek Cypriots soon understood that enosis was extremely unlikely. The Greek Cypriot leader, Archbishop Makarios III, now set independence for the island as his objective.

 

Britain resolved to solve the dispute by creating an independent Cyprus. In 1959, all involved parties signed the Zurich Agreements: Britain, Turkey, Greece, and the Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, Makarios and Dr. Fazil Kucuk, respectively. The new constitution drew heavily on the ethnic composition of the island. The President would be a Greek Cypriot, and the Vice-President a Turkish Cypriot with an equal veto. The contribution to the public service would be set at a ratio of 70:30, and the Supreme Court would consist of an equal number of judges from both communities as well as an independent judge who was not Greek, Turkish or British. The Zurich Agreements were supplemented by a number of treaties. The Treaty of Guarantee stated that secession or union with any state was forbidden, and that Greece, Turkey and Britain would be given guarantor status to intervene if that was violated. The Treaty of Alliance allowed for two small Greek and Turkish military contingents to be stationed on the island, and the Treaty of Establishment gave Britain sovereignty over two bases in Akrotiri and Dhekelia.

 

On 15 August 1960, the Colony of Cyprus became fully independent as the Republic of Cyprus. The new republic remained within the Commonwealth of Nations.

 

The new constitution brought dissatisfaction to Greek Cypriots, who felt it to be highly unjust for them for historical, demographic and contributional reasons. Although 80% of the island's population were Greek Cypriots and these indigenous people had lived on the island for thousands of years and paid 94% of taxes, the new constitution was giving the 17% of the population that was Turkish Cypriots, who paid 6% of taxes, around 30% of government jobs and 40% of national security jobs.

 

Within three years tensions between the two communities in administrative affairs began to show. In particular disputes over separate municipalities and taxation created a deadlock in government. A constitutional court ruled in 1963 Makarios had failed to uphold article 173 of the constitution which called for the establishment of separate municipalities for Turkish Cypriots. Makarios subsequently declared his intention to ignore the judgement, resulting in the West German judge resigning from his position. Makarios proposed thirteen amendments to the constitution, which would have had the effect of resolving most of the issues in the Greek Cypriot favour. Under the proposals, the President and Vice-President would lose their veto, the separate municipalities as sought after by the Turkish Cypriots would be abandoned, the need for separate majorities by both communities in passing legislation would be discarded and the civil service contribution would be set at actual population ratios (82:18) instead of the slightly higher figure for Turkish Cypriots.

 

The intention behind the amendments has long been called into question. The Akritas plan, written in the height of the constitutional dispute by the Greek Cypriot interior minister Polycarpos Georkadjis, called for the removal of undesirable elements of the constitution so as to allow power-sharing to work. The plan envisaged a swift retaliatory attack on Turkish Cypriot strongholds should Turkish Cypriots resort to violence to resist the measures, stating "In the event of a planned or staged Turkish attack, it is imperative to overcome it by force in the shortest possible time, because if we succeed in gaining command of the situation (in one or two days), no outside, intervention would be either justified or possible." Whether Makarios's proposals were part of the Akritas plan is unclear, however it remains that sentiment towards enosis had not completely disappeared with independence. Makarios described independence as "a step on the road to enosis".[31] Preparations for conflict were not entirely absent from Turkish Cypriots either, with right wing elements still believing taksim (partition) the best safeguard against enosis.

 

Greek Cypriots however believe the amendments were a necessity stemming from a perceived attempt by Turkish Cypriots to frustrate the working of government. Turkish Cypriots saw it as a means to reduce their status within the state from one of co-founder to that of minority, seeing it as a first step towards enosis. The security situation deteriorated rapidly.

 

Main articles: Bloody Christmas (1963) and Battle of Tillyria

An armed conflict was triggered after December 21, 1963, a period remembered by Turkish Cypriots as Bloody Christmas, when a Greek Cypriot policemen that had been called to help deal with a taxi driver refusing officers already on the scene access to check the identification documents of his customers, took out his gun upon arrival and shot and killed the taxi driver and his partner. Eric Solsten summarised the events as follows: "a Greek Cypriot police patrol, ostensibly checking identification documents, stopped a Turkish Cypriot couple on the edge of the Turkish quarter. A hostile crowd gathered, shots were fired, and two Turkish Cypriots were killed."

 

In the morning after the shooting, crowds gathered in protest in Northern Nicosia, likely encouraged by the TMT, without incident. On the evening of the 22nd, gunfire broke out, communication lines to the Turkish neighbourhoods were cut, and the Greek Cypriot police occupied the nearby airport. On the 23rd, a ceasefire was negotiated, but did not hold. Fighting, including automatic weapons fire, between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and militias increased in Nicosia and Larnaca. A force of Greek Cypriot irregulars led by Nikos Sampson entered the Nicosia suburb of Omorphita and engaged in heavy firing on armed, as well as by some accounts unarmed, Turkish Cypriots. The Omorphita clash has been described by Turkish Cypriots as a massacre, while this view has generally not been acknowledged by Greek Cypriots.

 

Further ceasefires were arranged between the two sides, but also failed. By Christmas Eve, the 24th, Britain, Greece, and Turkey had joined talks, with all sides calling for a truce. On Christmas day, Turkish fighter jets overflew Nicosia in a show of support. Finally it was agreed to allow a force of 2,700 British soldiers to help enforce a ceasefire. In the next days, a "buffer zone" was created in Nicosia, and a British officer marked a line on a map with green ink, separating the two sides of the city, which was the beginning of the "Green Line". Fighting continued across the island for the next several weeks.

 

In total 364 Turkish Cypriots and 174 Greek Cypriots were killed during the violence. 25,000 Turkish Cypriots from 103-109 villages fled and were displaced into enclaves and thousands of Turkish Cypriot houses were ransacked or completely destroyed.

 

Contemporary newspapers also reported on the forceful exodus of the Turkish Cypriots from their homes. According to The Times in 1964, threats, shootings and attempts of arson were committed against the Turkish Cypriots to force them out of their homes. The Daily Express wrote that "25,000 Turks have already been forced to leave their homes". The Guardian reported a massacre of Turks at Limassol on 16 February 1964.

 

Turkey had by now readied its fleet and its fighter jets appeared over Nicosia. Turkey was dissuaded from direct involvement by the creation of a United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) in 1964. Despite the negotiated ceasefire in Nicosia, attacks on the Turkish Cypriot persisted, particularly in Limassol. Concerned about the possibility of a Turkish invasion, Makarios undertook the creation of a Greek Cypriot conscript-based army called the "National Guard". A general from Greece took charge of the army, whilst a further 20,000 well-equipped officers and men were smuggled from Greece into Cyprus. Turkey threatened to intervene once more, but was prevented by a strongly worded letter from the American President Lyndon B. Johnson, anxious to avoid a conflict between NATO allies Greece and Turkey at the height of the Cold War.

 

Turkish Cypriots had by now established an important bridgehead at Kokkina, provided with arms, volunteers and materials from Turkey and abroad. Seeing this incursion of foreign weapons and troops as a major threat, the Cypriot government invited George Grivas to return from Greece as commander of the Greek troops on the island and launch a major attack on the bridgehead. Turkey retaliated by dispatching its fighter jets to bomb Greek positions, causing Makarios to threaten an attack on every Turkish Cypriot village on the island if the bombings did not cease. The conflict had now drawn in Greece and Turkey, with both countries amassing troops on their Thracian borders. Efforts at mediation by Dean Acheson, a former U.S. Secretary of State, and UN-appointed mediator Galo Plaza had failed, all the while the division of the two communities becoming more apparent. Greek Cypriot forces were estimated at some 30,000, including the National Guard and the large contingent from Greece. Defending the Turkish Cypriot enclaves was a force of approximately 5,000 irregulars, led by a Turkish colonel, but lacking the equipment and organisation of the Greek forces.

 

The Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1964, U Thant, reported the damage during the conflicts:

 

UNFICYP carried out a detailed survey of all damage to properties throughout the island during the disturbances; it shows that in 109 villages, most of them Turkish-Cypriot or mixed villages, 527 houses have been destroyed while 2,000 others have suffered damage from looting.

 

The situation worsened in 1967, when a military junta overthrew the democratically elected government of Greece, and began applying pressure on Makarios to achieve enosis. Makarios, not wishing to become part of a military dictatorship or trigger a Turkish invasion, began to distance himself from the goal of enosis. This caused tensions with the junta in Greece as well as George Grivas in Cyprus. Grivas's control over the National Guard and Greek contingent was seen as a threat to Makarios's position, who now feared a possible coup.[citation needed] The National Guard and Cyprus Police began patrolling the Turkish Cypriot enclaves of Ayios Theodoros and Kophinou, and on November 15 engaged in heavy fighting with the Turkish Cypriots.

 

By the time of his withdrawal 26 Turkish Cypriots had been killed. Turkey replied with an ultimatum demanding that Grivas be removed from the island, that the troops smuggled from Greece in excess of the limits of the Treaty of Alliance be removed, and that the economic blockades on the Turkish Cypriot enclaves be lifted. Grivas was recalled by the Athens Junta and the 12,000 Greek troops were withdrawn. Makarios now attempted to consolidate his position by reducing the number of National Guard troops, and by creating a paramilitary force loyal to Cypriot independence. In 1968, acknowledging that enosis was now all but impossible, Makarios stated, "A solution by necessity must be sought within the limits of what is feasible which does not always coincide with the limits of what is desirable."

 

After 1967 tensions between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots subsided. Instead, the main source of tension on the island came from factions within the Greek Cypriot community. Although Makarios had effectively abandoned enosis in favour of an 'attainable solution', many others continued to believe that the only legitimate political aspiration for Greek Cypriots was union with Greece.

 

On his arrival, Grivas began by establishing a nationalist paramilitary group known as the National Organization of Cypriot Fighters (Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agoniston B or EOKA-B), drawing comparisons with the EOKA struggle for enosis under the British colonial administration of the 1950s.

 

The military junta in Athens saw Makarios as an obstacle. Makarios's failure to disband the National Guard, whose officer class was dominated by mainland Greeks, had meant the junta had practical control over the Cypriot military establishment, leaving Makarios isolated and a vulnerable target.

 

During the first Turkish invasion, Turkish troops invaded Cyprus territory on 20 July 1974, invoking its rights under the Treaty of Guarantee. This expansion of Turkish-occupied zone violated International Law as well as the Charter of the United Nations. Turkish troops managed to capture 3% of the island which was accompanied by the burning of the Turkish Cypriot quarter, as well as the raping and killing of women and children. A temporary cease-fire followed which was mitigated by the UN Security Council. Subsequently, the Greek military Junta collapsed on July 23, 1974, and peace talks commenced in which a democratic government was installed. The Resolution 353 was broken after Turkey attacked a second time and managed to get a hold of 37% of Cyprus territory. The Island of Cyprus was appointed a Buffer Zone by the United Nations, which divided the island into two zones through the 'Green Line' and put an end to the Turkish invasion. Although Turkey announced that the occupied areas of Cyprus to be called the Federated Turkish State in 1975, it is not legitimised on a worldwide political scale. The United Nations called for the international recognition of independence for the Republic of Cyprus in the Security Council Resolution 367.

 

In the years after the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus one can observe a history of failed talks between the two parties. The 1983 declaration of the independent Turkish Republic of Cyprus resulted in a rise of inter-communal tensions and made it increasingly hard to find mutual understanding. With Cyprus' interest of a possible EU membership and a new UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 1997 new hopes arose for a fresh start. International involvement from sides of the US and UK, wanting a solution to the Cyprus dispute prior to the EU accession led to political pressures for new talks. The believe that an accession without a solution would threaten Greek-Turkish relations and acknowledge the partition of the island would direct the coming negotiations.

 

Over the course of two years a concrete plan, the Annan plan was formulated. In 2004 the fifth version agreed upon from both sides and with the endorsement of Turkey, US, UK and EU then was presented to the public and was given a referendum in both Cypriot communities to assure the legitimisation of the resolution. The Turkish Cypriots voted with 65% for the plan, however the Greek Cypriots voted with a 76% majority against. The Annan plan contained multiple important topics. Firstly it established a confederation of two separate states called the United Cyprus Republic. Both communities would have autonomous states combined under one unified government. The members of parliament would be chosen according to the percentage in population numbers to ensure a just involvement from both communities. The paper proposed a demilitarisation of the island over the next years. Furthermore it agreed upon a number of 45000 Turkish settlers that could remain on the island. These settlers became a very important issue concerning peace talks. Originally the Turkish government encouraged Turks to settle in Cyprus providing transfer and property, to establish a counterpart to the Greek Cypriot population due to their 1 to 5 minority. With the economic situation many Turkish-Cypriot decided to leave the island, however their departure is made up by incoming Turkish settlers leaving the population ratio between Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots stable. However all these points where criticised and as seen in the vote rejected mainly by the Greek Cypriots. These name the dissolution of the „Republic of Cyprus", economic consequences of a reunion and the remaining Turkish settlers as reason. Many claim that the plan was indeed drawing more from Turkish-Cypriot demands then Greek-Cypriot interests. Taking in consideration that the US wanted to keep Turkey as a strategic partner in future Middle Eastern conflicts.

 

A week after the failed referendum the Republic of Cyprus joined the EU. In multiple instances the EU tried to promote trade with Northern Cyprus but without internationally recognised ports this spiked a grand debate. Both side endure their intention of negotiations, however without the prospect of any new compromises or agreements the UN is unwilling to start the process again. Since 2004 negotiations took place in numbers but without any results, both sides are strongly holding on to their position without an agreeable solution in sight that would suit both parties.

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GoPro stereo-set 110mm basis

I've been using Lightroom very heavily on a daily basis over the past year or so. While I absolutely love the software, I think that there is room for improvement and thought I'd jot down some of my ideas on the best ways to improve the software.

 

I took a brief look at the new Lightroom 3.0 beta and my initial impression was lukewarm. Many of the features like watermarking, printing features, and online publishing from Lightroom, I didn't really care about. Some of the architectural changes that have been mentioned didn't feel all that powerful to me based on my initial testing. I found that in many regards, LR Beta 3.0 performed much slower and worse for me than LR 2.6, so I've largely abandoned using the beta at this point.

 

The final LR 3.0 product, of course, will likely be much more robust (hopefully) than the beta and ought to be a stronger product. And many, especially performance based, improvements that I mention in this post may actually be included in the final product. That said, here are the 10 most significant ways I think Adobe could improve the Lightroom product.

 

At present I am doing all of my Lightroom processing on a MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard with a 3.06 GHz intel Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of RAM.

1. Performance drag when keywording (possible memory leaks?). One of the things that I've found with LR 2.6 is that keywording seems to be especially taxing on the system. If you keyword a photo, maybe 60% of the time after keywording it you get the little beach ball and have to wait several seconds before LR will free up and let you keyword the next photo. Keywording is already a horribly mundane chore, but having to do it with beach ball delays in Lightroom is especially frustrating. If I restart LR I'll be able to keyword seamlessly again, but typically within 5 minutes the delays between keywording photos begin again. This is my number one biggest gripe with Lightroom today.

 

2. Improving keyword autocomplete. When you keyword photos it is nice that LR uses your keyword list to auto complete possible keywords. As you start typing it searches previously used keywords and offers them up to you. You can highlight the word you are intereseted in and press enter, saving you time and typing. For some reason LR treats both the apostrophe and the enter key as one in the same. So, for instance, when you are keywording Joe's Pizza, It might actually autocomplete the keyword as Joe's hamburgers as soon as you hit the apostrophe in Joe's. Apostrophes are commonly used in keywording and it is counter intuitive to have the apostrophe trigger an auto-complete entry. Auto-complete should be restricted to the enter key.

 

3. Importing large numbers of photos from your memory card into LR can be horrendous. I've stopped using LR to import photos directly altogether. Sometimes the import will take place reasonably quickly, but many times it can take literally an hour to import what should take 5-10 minutes. I'm not sure why it takes so much more time to import photos into LR directly from a card, but it is *much* faster if I actually copy my images from my cards from the Mac finder and then synch the folder up manually with Lightroom later. When you are offloading images from a card you want this done very quickly. Adobe should optimize this import process focusing only on first copying the files and then adding them to the catalog or whatever else is slowing imports down after the copying is done, freeing up your memory card faster.

 

4. Lightroom's adjustment brush needs work. One of my favorite features with Lightroom 2.6 is the adjustment brush, you can use this brush to burn and dodge and affect key areas of a photo including exposure, contrast, brightness, clarity etc. by selectively painting an area of the photograph and then adjusting the sliders. Unfortunately though, I have found the adjustment brush to be much weaker than the general development tools in Lightroom. If I use the exposure slider for the entire photo (for instance) I have a wide latitude of exposure range with my RAW image. If I have a photo that is too dark in areas and too light in other areas I can use the total photo exposure tool to get either part (the too dark part or too light part) properly exposed. But when I try to use the exposure slider on the adjustment brush to treat the area not exposed to my satisfaction I find I frequently get pixelization if crank it up or down too hard. It would be good if Adobe could use the same technology that they are using to adjust, say, exposure at the entire photo level, with the adjustment brush to get better results when using it.

5. Lightroom needs more ways to stimulate the imperfection of film. One of my favorite recent ways to shoot has been using Hipstamatic with my iPhone. Hipstamatic does a tremendous job of creating a lofi film like aesthetic with digital photos from my iPhone. The only problem is that they are digital photos from my iPhone. I'd love to be able to have similar options that incorporate to a much greater degree the vintage effects of film from within lightroom. Scratches on photos, old polaroid borders, smudges, and other imperfections can create an entirely different photograph. While I'm sure some of these sorts of effects can be implemented in Photoshop, Photoshop is much more difficult to master. Adobe should follow the trend of Hipstamatic and make very easy to apply vintage film effects for Lightroom. While the LR 3 beta does include a way to sort of get a bit more grain to effect a vintage look in photos, this is a far cry from the effects that a little $1.99 app like Hipstamatic can provide.

 

6. Improved vignetting control. While Adobe has improved the post crop vignetting available in the 3.0 beta, it is still seriously lacking. In post cropped photos the vignetting is applied perfectly on photographs. With 100% precision and accuracy. The problem is that when people want to add vignetting, they are frequently doing so to give the photograph a more natural film like feel. In camera vignetting is never 100% precise, it is subtly different in every area, in some ways random. LR's vignetting control pre crop is much more natural feeling than post crop. While the 3.0 beta gives a touch more flexibility in how you can vignette it still does not provide for the sort of natural random vignetting that occurs naturally in camera.

 

7. Better preset directories. I love my presets. I use them constantly. I've got some really good ones. But damn they are hard to find. And there are so many bad ones out there floating around. Presets are a great place to start with your photo editing process, I've just had a hard time finding a very strong database or collection of the best ones.

 

8. When selecting multiple images in the film strip Loupe view, Lightroom should apply keywords to all images. Right now the only way to keyword multiple images in Lightroom is to use the Grid view. But if you want to keyword as you select images looking at them full size (grid view can only get you to half size) then you have to keyword them one at a time. Lightroom should allow me to select multiple images from the film strip in the Loupe view and apply keywords to all images selected.

9. A good in Lightroom geotagging feature that uses Google Maps. At present I am using Geotagger for the Mac and Google earth to geotag my images. It would be nice if Adobe could as seamlessly interact with Google Earth. Some external app might be out there right now that I'm not aware of for this yet with Google Earth, but nothing that I've seen.

 

10. Color analysis. One of the things that I've done on Flickr is to create sets of images based on primary colors in the images. It would be nice if I could filter my images in LR by color. I'd like to be able to filter all of my finished images by dominant color, blue, red, pink, etc. This would better allow me to select these images and keyword them selectively.

 

So those are my top 10 requests for Lightroom. My views of course are only mine and while my desire for things like more natural post crop vignetting etc. may be important to me and maybe a small minority vs. features like watermarking, web publishing and printing, I certainly recognize that Lightroom is built for a much larger audience that may be much more interested in some of the new features in the LR 3.0 beta than I am.

 

What are the features that you would like to see in LR 3.0? What would be the killer features for you. Are there ways to get some of what I want out of the existing product that I'm just not aware of? Are they ways to better optimize for performance with keywording, for instance. Do you have any good Lightroom tips that you've uncovered worth sharing?

This was the sign for the Kmart store in Hazard, KY. Since its closure on May 6th, the Big Kmart logo has been spray painted over. I will definitely miss shopping here on a regular basis.

A primary school in Kerala/India that a friend of us set up. If you want to support the project, please visit

www.hilfsprojekt-kerala.org/

Basis des ausgestellten Giulietta SZ war der von Franco Scaglietti, Bertone, entworfene Sprint Speciale, SS. Elio Zagato setzte eine Aluminiumkarosserie und Plexiglasscheiben ein, um Gewicht einzusparen und den Wagen für sportliche Wettkämpfe konkurrenzfähig zu machen. Der SZ wurde zwischen 1960 und 1962 als Coda Tonda in 172 Exemplaren gebaut, der Coda tronca mit längerem Steilheck löste ihn ab.

 

1.290 cc

4 in-line

100 PS

Vmax : 200 km/h

172 ex.

 

Expo: Zagato Swiss

Pantheon Basel

Forum für Oldtimer

Hofacker 72

Basel

Swiss - Schweiz

March 2017

  

Well, somewhat meh build, I think.

 

The BASIS is one of the largest spaceships built by mankind in the Perry Rhodan series. It is an ultra long distance (300 million lightyears and back being one of the longest voyages undertaken) carrier ship, 9 miles long. The color of the hull is pinkish due to the ynkelonium-terkonit steel alloy used in the ship's construction.

 

The front section contains the crew compartments, the command and control center, and the FTL drive. The central disc contains laboratories and hangars. Smaller ships (up to 1.5 miles diameter) can land on top for servicing. The rear section contains the sublight engines.

 

Basis for today's post-processed abstract.

I began my search for inspiration in building this model by searching for vehicles still built in 1996 that had originated a large period of time previously.

 

In this respect, I was in luck - the original basis for this model was a one and a half-ton pickup designed and built by the Nissan Motor Company from 1971 to 1982, named the Nissan Junior 140/141 Series. Still short of 1996 though.

 

This Nissan model was then licenced to SAIPA Motors in Iran for manufacture since 1983. In 1998 the Z24 was manufactured in Iran by Zamyad, and sold under their own bran since 2003.

 

www.saipacorp.com/en/allproducts/zamyad/zamyadvanetz24

 

You are still able to purchase this vehicle as manufactured today.

 

The standard 2.4 litre inline-4 cylinder engine isn't exactly the type of powerplant to set the world on fire in a hotrod.

 

This can be remedied any number of ways - but V8s are a pretty good place to start.

 

You may by now have noticed that the Z24 kind of looks like a 4/5 scale 1966 Ford Galaxy Coupe-Utility. This means the V8 needs to be other smaller side, like a small-block. This leads to the choice of a Chevrolet 5.7 litre LT1 - a compact pushrod V8 that is both low and relatively narrow (due to the compact heads) - especially compared to modern V8 Ford engines.

 

Though the Z24 overall is quite small, it still was a hefty 1850 kg in standard trim, though, with a very high carrying payload.

 

The engine has been modified to include a set of large-bore long inlet runners (to boost low-end torque).

 

The Z24 Rat-rod here also uses a short-frame and short bed rather than the 2865mm wheelbase used as standard.

 

This Lego miniland-scale LUGNuts Custom Zamyad Z24 LT1 Pickup Rat-Rod has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 102nd Build Challenge, titled - 'I Smell a (Modern) Rat!'. In this challenge, any post-1996 vehicle can be built as a rat-rod.

in amsterdam

www.flickr.com/photos/andrecarbon/7696464520/lightbox/

BASIS - basisamsterdam.nl/ -

from ift.tt/2awYDI9

 

Only four posts in and I’ve already touched a nerve.

 

@janersm which literally most people do on a regular basis. And the fact you’re writing a 2500 essay on the wrongs of trump is biast

 

— StopRaven (@stop_raven) July 26, 2016

 

It’s “biast” for me to express my own opinion. Oh my goodness. How dare someone have an actual opinion!

 

So, if you didn’t read my first, second, or third set of 21 reasons to oppose Trump, consider reading those before you read the next 21 reasons. After today’s post, there will be 95 more posts. If they were bottles of beer, this could be a song.

 

64. Donald Trump lied about witnessing Muslims celebrating 9/11 on a rooftop in Jersey City, New Jersey. I’ve mentioned Trump’s mocking of Serge Kovaleski, but not how he earned the ire of Trump. Kovaleski had covered a story in 2001 that suggested that there were people in Jersey City partying on rooftops. Donald claimed to see thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating on rooftops after the World Trade Centers collapsed. He claimed there was video of it on television all the time. When he was asked about it by George Stephanopolous, Trump said:

 

“It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good.”

 

Except it wasn’t, because it didn’t happen. The story was never about thousands of Muslims. There was no video. It’s all in Trump’s head.

 

65. Trump insulted Seventh-Day Adventists. While speaking to supporters at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida in October 2015, Trump, after talking about how he’s a Presbyterian, said, “Boy, that’s down the middle of the road folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about.” While Trump’s dig may not sound that vicious, it was meant to be very vicious. You seem, some Christians don’t believe that Seventh-day Adventists are even Christian. This is a group that also refuses to vote for non-Christians. This was a time when Trump was behind Ben Carson by 9 percentage points; Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist. It was personal.

 

66. Trump hired Manafort. When Donald Trump dumped Corey Lewandowski and replaced him with Paul Manafort, very few people in America knew of the background of Manafort. Most stories touted him as having ties to the Republican Party. A few brought up some recent jobs of of his. Manafort has ties to Viktor Yanukovych, who was the the prime minister of the Ukraine at the time, as well as an ally of Vladimir Putin. In 2010, Yanukovych became the president of Ukraine, but had to flee to Russia during the 2014 revolution. Manafort was also a consultant of Yanukovych, helping Yanukovych’s first run for the Ukrainian presidency in 2004. When Yanukovych hired him after the first results were invalidated, Manafort was meant to improve his images. He was unable to in the time given, but Manafort continued to work within Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. Manafort was still working with the administration when Yanukovych fled and continued working within Ukrainian politics after he’d fled, including his reported involvement in the 2015 election campaign of Vitali Klitschko, who ran for mayor in Kiev. Now, Manafort is working with Donald Trump and was even used on July 27th on CBS This Morning to argue that Donald Trump had no ties to Vladimir Putin’s regime, which may have ties to the hacking of the DNC by Russians and subsequent Wikileaks email release.

 

67. Trump called Hillary Clinton “shrill” at a rally. A lot of people don’t like Hillary Clinton, but most don’t call her “shrill” at campaign events. Actually, he didn’t just say it once, he said it twice–over-pronouncing it the second time. I guess he wanted to make sure that everyone at his half-empty rally heard him correctly. He tried to suggest he calls men shrill, but if he has, it hasn’t been on Twitter. And he should know that the term “shrill” is meant to shut women up. My guess is: that’s why he said it. Luckily, it didn’t work.

 

68. Trump mocked Fiorina’s physical appearance. No, really. He did and managed to do it while being interviewed by Rolling Stone.

 

When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump’s momentum, Trump’s expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. “Look at that face!” he cries. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!” The laughter grows halting and faint behind him. “I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”

 

When asked on Fox News if he really said something like that, he confirmed, saying, “Probably I did say something like that about Carly.” But he tried to walk it back with, “I’m talking about persona. I’m not talking about look.” Donald always has an excuse.

 

69. Donald Trump believes that John McCain shouldn’t be considered a war hero. While speaking at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Trump said of McCain, “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured.”

 

70. Donald Trump also stated that he doesn’t believe that people who are captured are war heroes. In his words, “I like people who weren’t captured.” He’s walked those comments back, because they didn’t go over very well, but they were still said. And his reframing of his comments (“If somebody’s a prisoner, I consider them a war hero.” and “If a person is captured, they’re a hero as far as I’m concerned. … But you have to do other things also.”) didn’t really explain the difference between McCain’s capture and the POWs who he actually sees as a war hero.

 

71. Trump comes up with childish and offensive nicknames for opponents. Little Marco. Lyin’ Ted. Crooked Hillary. Crazy Bernie. Goofy Elizabeth Warren. Pocahontas. Donald Trump is less witty and original than a third grade bully.

 

72. Trump wants to end Freedom of Press as we know it. Conservatives love to talk about how they have First Amendment rights and how they love using them to offend; they “don’t care about your feels” and want to “trigger” people with the words. Well, Donald Trump doesn’t feel the same. He wants to open libel laws up to sue the press for things that upset him.

 

73. Trump mocked Ruth Bader Ginsburg. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed her distaste for Trump, he responded with “her mind is shot.” Classy to the end, RBG didn’t fire back challenging his mental state.

 

Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot – resign!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016

 

Is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg going to apologize to me for her misconduct? Big mistake by an incompetent judge!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016

 

If I win the Presidency, we will swamp Justice Ginsburg with real judges and real legal opinions!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2016

 

74. Donald Trump not only wants a wall, he wants Mexico to pay for it. For some very odd reason, Donald Trump believes that his sacred wall should be paid for by another country. I’m fairly certain that the Constitution requires the United States to provide for its common defense, but apparently Trump has gotten a new copy of the Constitution that is missing the Preamble and the First Amendment. His planned wall is one of the best ways to tell that Donald Trump doesn’t know how to be the President of the United States.

 

75. Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. If ever there was a way to show that Mr. Trump is a bigot, it’s his proposed ban on Muslims. Trump has stated he wants to ban Muslims from traveling and immigrating to the country until we get terrorism under control. Terrorism isn’t something that can be controlled and denying people the ability to get to this country based on their religion or, as he’s also suggested, their country of origin will not stop it. If you look at the most recent “acts of terror” that have been “linked” to people who were born in America decades ago. You cannot define a terrorist based on the country they come from or the religion that they believe in.

 

76. Donald Trump gave Robert Pattinson dating advice. After Kristen Stewart cheated on Robert Pattinson, and ended the sacred, beloved ship known as Robsten, Donald Trump, a serial cheater, gave Rob some advice. For almost a month, he gave him unsolicited advice.

 

Robert Pattinson should not take back Kristen Stewart. She cheated on him like a dog & will do it again–just watch. He can do much better!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2012

 

Lots of response to my Pattinson/Kristen Stewart reunion. She will cheat again–100 certain–am I ever wrong?

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2012

 

Robert I’m getting a lot of heat for saying you should dump Kristen- but I’m right. If you saw the Miss Universe girls you would reconsider.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2012

 

Everyone knows I am right that Robert Pattinson should dump Kristen Stewart. In a couple of years, he will thank me. Be smart, Robert.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2012

 

Everyone is asking me to speak more on Robert & Kristen.I don’t have time except to say “Robert, drop her, she cheated on you & will again!”

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 23, 2012

 

Miss Universe 2012 Pageant will be airing live on @nbc & @Telemundo december 19th. Open invite stands for Robert Pattinson.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2012

 

Robert Pattinson is putting on a good face for the release of Twilight. He took my advice on Kristen Stewart…I hope!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2012

 

Everybody wants me to talk about Robert Pattinson and not Brian Williams—I guess people just don’t care about Brian!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 9, 2012

 

After Friday’s Twilight release, I hope Robert Pattinson will not be seen in public with Kristen–she will cheat on him again!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2012

 

77. Donald Trump is a cheater. He holds himself to be a moral man. He considers his beliefs on marriage and its sanctity to be a representation of traditional values. And, like it or not, he is the now standard bearer for a party that obsessed over his opponent’s husband’s adultery to an extreme. His own running mate wanted to make adultery illegal before joining Trump on the ticket. So how do the Republicans justify nominating a man who has never respected marriage vows or women.

 

78. Trump’s campaign lied about the plagiarism by Melania Trump. When Melania spoke at the Republican National Convention, people were amazed that this brilliant, beautiful woman gave a touching speech. People on the left and right had joked over her brains for months, and had suggested that her modeling career made her unworthy of being the First Lady. Their misogyny towards this woman was grotesque, but, for a moment, it was forgotten, until people realized that they’d heard the speech before. The campaign denied it. They suggested that the words could have come from My Little Pony or John Legend. Eventually, after days of denial, they said it was just a mistake. Why couldn’t they have admitted that earlier? Mistakes are forgivable. Covering them up is less so. The Trump campaign and members of the Republican Party knowingly attempted to deceived the public. Their little, lyin’,crooked, crazy, goofy cover-up was pathetic and deceitful and shows the character, or lack thereof, of the campaign and the Party.

 

I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative t.co/I46VtY2CXI

 

— John Legend (@johnlegend) July 19, 2016

 

79. Trump said that the Charlie Hebdo victims should have been armed. Donald Trump believed that the victims of the Charlie Hebdo slayings would be alive if France didn’t have strict gun laws. Like with several other mass murders, there was a cop who tried to stop the attack, but couldn’t. Donald Trump didn’t know what he was talking about then and he doesn’t know what he is talking about now.

 

80. Donald Trump claimed that every woman on The Apprentice flirted with him. Donald Trump wrote in his 2004 book Trump: How to Get Rich, “All the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected. A sexual dynamic is always present between people, unless you are asexual.” No, Mr. Trump, it isn’t to be expected and it isn’t always present.

 

81. Trump repeatedly suggested that vaccines cause autism. He’s wrong.

 

A study says @Autism is out of control–a 78% increase in 10 years. Stop giving monstrous combined vaccinations (cont) t.co/jthy8mww

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 30, 2012

 

My @foxandfriends interview discussing @BarackObama attacks on capitalism, Autism & vaccinations and #CelebApprentice t.co/A6PORNFj

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2012

 

Now they say obese women may cause Autism in children- nonsense, they use any excuse. The FDA should immediately (cont) t.co/ZtaDb6dh

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 9, 2012

 

He thinks scientists are lying to you about the causes of autism. Maybe he should have picked Jill Stein as a running mate.

 

I’ve gotten many letters from people fighting autism thanking me for stating how dangerous 38 vaccines on a (cont) t.co/Qkn0rHBY

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2012

 

Many many people are thanking me for what I said about @autism & vaccinations. Something must be done immediately.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 13, 2012

 

I have received many notes of thanks from people regarding my comments on vaccines and autism. The autism and (cont) t.co/v5bzFN92

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 18, 2012

 

Massive combined inoculations to small children is the cause for big increase in autism….

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2012

 

Look what happened to the autism rate from 1983-2008 since one-time massive shots were given to children-http://t.co/lpq2SveJ

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2012

 

Lots of autism and vaccine response. Stop these massive doses immediately. Go back to single, spread out shots! What do we have to lose.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2012

 

We should march on Washington re:autism–with leadership & common sense the numbers would drop precipitously!

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2012

 

Blaming Obama for autism sounds like something that Trump would say, but that’s because it is something he said.

 

Autism rates through the roof–why doesn’t the Obama administration do something about doctor-inflicted autism. We lose nothing to try.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 22, 2012

 

To all haters and losers: I am NOT anti-vaccine, but I am against shooting massive doses into tiny children. Spread shots out over time.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2014

 

No more massive injections. Tiny children are not horses—one vaccine at a time, over time.

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2014

 

Trump doesn’t understand autism. He doesn’t understand medicine. He doesn’t understand science.

 

82. Donald Trump praised Saddam Hussein. Trump said of Hussein, “He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn’t read them the rights — they didn’t talk, they were a terrorist, it was over.” It wasn’t the first time that Trump appreciated Hussein’s tactics. While he admitted that Hussein was a bad man, it isn’t enough to say that Hussein, a brutal dictator who terrorized his own people, was just a bad guy.

 

83. Trump said that an airplane above a rally was a Mexican attack. It may have been a joke, but it was a pathetic one meant to scare and incite people to be more xenophobic and angry.

 

84. After the shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Trump took credit for talking about terrorism. When 49 people died in Orlando, Donald Trump thought that the responsible and respectful reaction to the event was to take credit for having talked about terrorism. Donald Trump claimed credit for the actions of Mateen before Daesh ever had a chance to.

 

What has happened in Orlando is just the beginning. Our leadership is weak and ineffective. I called it and asked for the ban. Must be tough

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2016

 

I thought people weren’t celebrating? They were cheering all over, even this savage from Orlando. I was right. t.co/DrVa65X9rI

 

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2016

 

Pathetic, Mr. Trump. Really pathetic.

 

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The Zelve Monastery is a Byzantine-era monastery that was carved into the rock in pre-iconoclastic times. It is part of the Zelve Open Air Museum, located between Ürgüp and Avanos.[1]

 

Remains

The remains of the Zelve monastery complex are located on the northern slopes of Aktepe, 1 km from Paşa Bağlari and 10 km out from Göreme on the Avanos road. Zelve does not have the rich frescoes of Göreme and other Cappadocian locations. Zelve is spread out over three valleys, of which two are connected by a tunnel. The complex contains innumerable rooms and passages which also house many pointed fairy chimneys with large stems, at about 40 feet above the valley floor.

 

The valley was a monastic retreat between the 9th and 13th centuries.[1] Christians moved to Zelve during the Persian and Arab invasions.[citation needed] The site was inhabited until 1952 when villagers were relocated to nearby Aktepe due to safety concerns.[1]

 

Cappadocia's first seminaries to train priests are located here at the monastery. Dating back to the early years of monastery life in Zelve is the Direkli Church (with the famed columns). Direkli is located at the bottom of the slope. The main decorations are iconoclastic-doctrine high relief crosses. The valley also contains the Balikli Kilise (Fish), Üzümlü Kilise (Grapes) churches and the now totally collapsed Geyikli Kilise (Deer church). These churches date to the pre-iconoclastic period.

 

The area was inhabited until 1952, when the last inhabitants moved to the new town Yeni Zelve ("New Zelve"), 2 km away. In 1967, Zelve was turned into an open-air museum.

 

The area also contains houses, a tunnel joining two of the valleys, a mill (without sails), and a small mosque. Several dovecotes are found in the valley.

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelve_Monastery

 

CAPPADOCIA WORLD HERITAGE LIST :

 

whc.unesco.org/en/list/357

 

In a spectacular landscape, entirely sculpted by erosion, the Göreme valley and its surroundings contain rock-hewn sanctuaries that provide unique evidence of Byzantine art in the post-Iconoclastic period. Dwellings, troglodyte villages and underground towns – the remains of a traditional human habitat dating back to the 4th century – can also be seen there.

Brief synthesis

Located on the central Anatolia plateau within a volcanic landscape sculpted by erosion to form a succession of mountain ridges, valleys and pinnacles known as “fairy chimneys” or hoodoos, Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia cover the region between the cities of Nevşehir, Ürgüp and Avanos, the sites of Karain, Karlık, Yeşilöz, Soğanlı and the subterranean cities of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu. The area is bounded on the south and east by ranges of extinct volcanoes with Erciyes Dağ (3916 m) at one end and Hasan Dağ (3253 m) at the other. The density of its rock-hewn cells, churches, troglodyte villages and subterranean cities within the rock formations make it one of the world's most striking and largest cave-dwelling complexes. Though interesting from a geological and ethnological point of view, the incomparable beauty of the decor of the Christian sanctuaries makes Cappadocia one of the leading examples of the post-iconoclastic Byzantine art period.

It is believed that the first signs of monastic activity in Cappadocia date back to the 4th century at which time small anchorite communities, acting on the teachings of Basileios the Great, Bishop of Kayseri, began inhabiting cells hewn in the rock. In later periods, in order to resist Arab invasions, they began banding together into troglodyte villages or subterranean towns such as Kaymakli or Derinkuyu which served as places of refuge.

Cappadocian monasticism was already well established in the iconoclastic period (725-842) as illustrated by the decoration of many sanctuaries which kept a strict minimum of symbols (most often sculpted or tempera painted crosses). However, after 842 many rupestral churches were dug in Cappadocia and richly decorated with brightly coloured figurative painting. Those in the Göreme Valley include Tokalı Kilise and El Nazar Kilise (10th century), St. Barbara Kilise and Saklı Kilise (11th century) and Elmalı Kilise and Karanlık Kilise (end of the 12th – beginning of the 13th century).

Criterion (i): Owing to their quality and density, the rupestral sanctuaries of Cappadocia constitute a unique artistic achievement offering irreplaceable testimony to the post-iconoclastic Byzantine art period.

Criterion (iii): The rupestral dwellings, villages, convents and churches retain the fossilized image of a province of the Byzantine Empire between the 4th century and the arrival of the Seljuk Turks (1071). Thus, they are the essential vestiges of a civilization which has disappeared.

Criterion (v): Cappadocia is an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement which has become vulnerable under the combined effects of natural erosion and, more recently, tourism.

Criterion (vii): In a spectacular landscape dramatically demonstrating erosional forces, the Göreme Valley and its surroundings provide a globally renowned and accessible display of hoodoo landforms and other erosional features, which are of great beauty, and which interact with the cultural elements of the landscape.

Integrity

Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia, having been extensively used and modified by man for centuries, is a landscape of harmony combining human interaction and settlement with dramatic natural landforms. There has been some earthquake damage to some of the cones and the pillars, but this is seen as a naturally occurring phenomenon. Overuse by tourists and some vandalism have been reported and some incompatible structures have been introduced.

The erosional processes that formed the distinctive conical rock structures will continue to create new fairy chimneys and rock pillars, however due to the rate of this process, the natural values of the property may still be threatened by unsustainable use. The cultural features, including rock-hewn churches and related cultural structures, mainly at risk of being undermined by erosion and other negative natural processes coupled with mass tourism and development pressures, can never be replaced. threats Some of the churches mentioned by early scholars such as C. Texier, H.G. Rott and Guillaume de Jerphanion are no longer extant.

Authenticity

The property meets the conditions of authenticity as its values and their attributes, including its historical setting, form, design, material and workmanship adequately reflect the cultural and natural values recognized in the inscription criteria.

Given the technical difficulties of building in this region, where it is a matter of hewing out structures within the natural rock, creating architecture by the removal of material rather than by putting it together to form the elements of a building, the underlying morphological structure and the difficulties inherent in the handling of the material inhibited the creative impulses of the builders. This conditioning of human effort by natural conditions persisted almost unchanged through successive periods and civilizations, influencing the cultural attitudes and technical skills of each succeeding generation.

Protection and management requirements

The World Heritage property Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia is subject to legal protection in accordance with both the Protection of Cultural and Natural Resources Act No. 2863 and the National Parks Act No. 2873. The entire territory between the cities of Nevşehir, Ürgüp and Avanos is designated as a National Park under the Act No. 2873. In addition, natural, archaeological, urban, and mixed archaeological and natural conservation areas, two underground towns, five troglodyte villages, and more than 200 individual rock-hewn churches, some of which contain numerous frescoes, have been entered into the register of immovable monuments and sites according to the Act No. 2863.

Legal protection, management and monitoring of the Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia fall within the scope of national and regional governmental administrations. The Nevşehir and Kayseri Regional Conservation Councils are responsible for keeping the register of monuments and sites, including carrying out all tasks related to the legal protection of monuments and listed buildings and the approval to carry out any restoration-related works. They also evaluate regional and conservation area plans prepared by the responsible national and/or local (i.e. municipal) authorities.

Studies for revision and updating of the existing land use and conservation plan (Göreme National Park Long-term Development Plan) of 1981 were completed in 2003. The major planning decisions proposed were that natural conservation areas are to be protected as they were declared in 1976. Minor adjustments in the peripheral areas of settlements and spatial developments of towns located in the natural conservation sites including Göreme, Ortahisar, Çavuşin, Ürgüp and Mustafapaşa will be strictly controlled. In other words, the Plan proposes to confine the physical growth of these towns to recently established zones. Hotel developments will take into account the set limits for room capacities. Furthermore, the plan also suggested that local authorities should be advised to review land use decisions for areas that have been reserved for tourism developments in the town plans.

Preparation of conservation area plans for the urban and/or mixed urban-archaeological conservation sites within the historic sections of Göreme are in place and provide zoning criteria and the rules and guidelines to be used in the maintenance and restoration of listed buildings and other buildings which are not registered, but which are located within the historic zones. Similar planning studies for the towns of Ortahisar and Uçhisar are in place. Once finalised, a conservation area plan for the urban conservation area in Ürgüp will be in place. All relevant plans are kept up to date on a continuing basis.

Appropriate facilities aimed at improving the understanding of the World Heritage property have been completed for the subterranean towns of Kaymaklı and Derinkuyu, and are required for Göreme and Paşabağı.

Monuments in danger due to erosion, including the El Nazar, Elmalı, and Meryemana (Virgin Mary) churches, have been listed as monuments requiring priority action. Specific measures for their protection, restoration and maintenance are required at the site level.

While conservation plans and protection measures are in place for individual sites, it is recognised by the principal parties responsible for site management that an integrated Regional Plan for the Cappadocia Cultural and Tourism Conservation and Development Area is required to protect the World Heritage values of the property. Adequate financial, political and technical support is also required to secure the management of the property.

whc.unesco.org/en/list/357

  

www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/world-heritage/cappadocia/

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia

 

ZELVE VİDEO;

  

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbl1psbuq0g

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an der Basis sitzen die kleinen Brutzwiebeln - die Knöllchen

 

entdeckt bei der Wanderung in der Franzigmark

 

Basis : Jaguar E-Type V12 Series 3 2+2 Coupé

Chassis n° UC1S73059BW

 

Estimated : CHF 170.000 - 220.000

Unsold

 

The Bonmont Sale

Collectors' Motor Cars - Bonhams

Golf & Country Club de Bonmont

Chéserex

Switzerland - Suisse - Schweiz

September 2019

 

"What we've done is give an E-Type Jaguar the total functionality of an XKR. The Beacham E-Type is destined for the classic enthusiast who requires reliability along with modern technology and all mod cons, plus a serious fun factor." - Beacham Ltd.

 

One of the biggest names in the classic Jaguar world, Beacham first caught the motoring public's imagination back in the late 1980s when the company, based at Hawke's Bay in New Zealand's North Island, began offering its comprehensively restored, re-engineered and updated Jaguar Mark 2 saloons. Since then Dr Greg Beacham's company has expanded its activities to include restoration and upgrades for the Jaguar XK150, Aston Martin DB4, various Rolls-Royce and Bentley models and, of course, the immortal E-Type.

 

Automotive technology, though, does not stand still and today, more than half a century since the E-Type's launch, there is a growing market for improved versions of this iconic model combining its beautiful classic looks with modern performance, handling and comfort. Beacham's approach is to build the V8 engine, driver train and running gear of the Jaguar XKR sports car into an original E-Type bodyshell.

 

Firstly, it must be said that the Beacham E-type is very rapid, travelling from 0-60 mph in around six seconds. Plus, it features superb steering and handling because it has been re-engineered from the wheels up. Externally the Beacham looks very familiar, the only real give-aways for the sharp-eyed being the contemporary Jaguar mirrors and door handles; the air scoop under the front bumper; and the bigger tyres and chrome wire wheels. (The latter are genuine, and original, Jaguar factory options.) However, it is beneath the skin and inside the cabin where the most obvious changes are to be found.

 

The Beacham E-type is crammed full of technology: ABS brakes, traction control, anti-dive suspension geometry and more. Included is a full complement of comfort and safety systems: power-adjustable steering wheel and side mirrors, all with memory function; climate control and electric windows; SRS/airbag systems; and a power-operated convertible roof. In addition there is a premium sound system and GPS, all set into a bespoke polished wood-veneer dashboard. Trimmed in supple new leather, the modern seats have all the power controls from current Jaguars.

 

A new sub-frame was devised to house the XKR V8 engine and front suspension, and the integration of the mechanical components must be considered a remarkable engineering feat. Underneath, the car is a work of art. The stainless-steel exhaust system is of the highest order, and everywhere there is evidence of the closest attention to detail. But exchanging modern technology for old involves more than fabricating new engine mounts and re-routing exhaust systems. Combining the electronics of modern engines, transmissions, and systems such as airbags and ABS with existing electronics is a startling achievement for a small manufacturer.

 

Based on a US-market Series 3 V12 2+2 Coupé, the example offered here was completed in 2015 and first registered in the UK on 21st July of that year, since when it has had two owners. Finished in dark blue metallic with tan leather interior, this E-Type has automatic transmission and features power steering, air conditioning, electric folding roof, ABS, electrically operated seats and boot lid, removable hard top, electric windows, trip computer, CD player, and an alarm. Only 1,144 km have been covered from new and the car is presented in commensurately good condition.

Basis : Jaguar E-Type V12 Series 3 2+2 Coupé

Chassis n° UC1S73059BW

 

Estimated : CHF 170.000 - 220.000

Unsold

 

The Bonmont Sale

Collectors' Motor Cars - Bonhams

Golf & Country Club de Bonmont

Chéserex

Switzerland - Suisse - Schweiz

September 2019

 

"What we've done is give an E-Type Jaguar the total functionality of an XKR. The Beacham E-Type is destined for the classic enthusiast who requires reliability along with modern technology and all mod cons, plus a serious fun factor." - Beacham Ltd.

 

One of the biggest names in the classic Jaguar world, Beacham first caught the motoring public's imagination back in the late 1980s when the company, based at Hawke's Bay in New Zealand's North Island, began offering its comprehensively restored, re-engineered and updated Jaguar Mark 2 saloons. Since then Dr Greg Beacham's company has expanded its activities to include restoration and upgrades for the Jaguar XK150, Aston Martin DB4, various Rolls-Royce and Bentley models and, of course, the immortal E-Type.

 

Automotive technology, though, does not stand still and today, more than half a century since the E-Type's launch, there is a growing market for improved versions of this iconic model combining its beautiful classic looks with modern performance, handling and comfort. Beacham's approach is to build the V8 engine, driver train and running gear of the Jaguar XKR sports car into an original E-Type bodyshell.

 

Firstly, it must be said that the Beacham E-type is very rapid, travelling from 0-60 mph in around six seconds. Plus, it features superb steering and handling because it has been re-engineered from the wheels up. Externally the Beacham looks very familiar, the only real give-aways for the sharp-eyed being the contemporary Jaguar mirrors and door handles; the air scoop under the front bumper; and the bigger tyres and chrome wire wheels. (The latter are genuine, and original, Jaguar factory options.) However, it is beneath the skin and inside the cabin where the most obvious changes are to be found.

 

The Beacham E-type is crammed full of technology: ABS brakes, traction control, anti-dive suspension geometry and more. Included is a full complement of comfort and safety systems: power-adjustable steering wheel and side mirrors, all with memory function; climate control and electric windows; SRS/airbag systems; and a power-operated convertible roof. In addition there is a premium sound system and GPS, all set into a bespoke polished wood-veneer dashboard. Trimmed in supple new leather, the modern seats have all the power controls from current Jaguars.

 

A new sub-frame was devised to house the XKR V8 engine and front suspension, and the integration of the mechanical components must be considered a remarkable engineering feat. Underneath, the car is a work of art. The stainless-steel exhaust system is of the highest order, and everywhere there is evidence of the closest attention to detail. But exchanging modern technology for old involves more than fabricating new engine mounts and re-routing exhaust systems. Combining the electronics of modern engines, transmissions, and systems such as airbags and ABS with existing electronics is a startling achievement for a small manufacturer.

 

Based on a US-market Series 3 V12 2+2 Coupé, the example offered here was completed in 2015 and first registered in the UK on 21st July of that year, since when it has had two owners. Finished in dark blue metallic with tan leather interior, this E-Type has automatic transmission and features power steering, air conditioning, electric folding roof, ABS, electrically operated seats and boot lid, removable hard top, electric windows, trip computer, CD player, and an alarm. Only 1,144 km have been covered from new and the car is presented in commensurately good condition.

 

A primary school in Kerala/India that a friend of us set up. If you want to support the project, please visit

www.hilfsprojekt-kerala.org/