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CORAL SEA (Aug. 9, 2017) A CH-53E Super Stallion, assigned to the “Dragons” of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced), takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) in support of Amphibious Integration Training (AIT). Bonhomme Richard, flagship of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group, is participating in AIT with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to increase joint capability to respond to a number of potential contingencies. AIT, taking place off the coast of and within Australia's Shoalwater Bay Training Area, will test the MEU's ability to conduct all of its core missions such as stability operations, non-combatant evacuation and disaster relief. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Cosmo Walrath/Released)
Sunrises are perhaps the hardest and most unpredictable to photograph, and certainly the one decision where the tradeoffs are extremely hard to ascertain. Whenever I try to plan ahead for a sunrise shoot, I keep exploring different contingencies and evaluate how conditions can go wrong. But once I commit, I prefer not to turn back on that decision.
The only choice after that lays in the location and composition to shoot. And this represents another challenge if you have scouted the area before. Such was the case with trying to capture sunrise in the vicinity of the San Juan islands. Thankfully, this lighthouse formed the perfect foreground for the scene. Two of the innumerable bald eagles in the area settled atop the lighthouse, much to my delight, to be the icing on the cake that was this sunrise.
San Juan Islands
WA USA
CORAL SEA (Nov. 19, 2018) The dry-cargo and ammunition ship USNS Wally Schirra (T-AKE 8) conducts vertical replenishment with the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) during a replenishment-at-sea. Green Bay, part of Commander Amphibious Squadron 11, is operating in the region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anaid Banuelos Rodriguez)
STEP 1: Securely place paint can in machine.
STEP 2: Press start button, enjoy :)
Contingency step (if you didn't correctly follow the instructions of step 1 and the paint can is *not* secure): RUN!!!
Not quite as good as the out of hope during the remodel photo from last summer at the Senatobia store, but I thought it was at least nearly as interesting as the multitude of other similar scenes found (four different example links there) at other Walmart locations!
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Walmart, 1997-built, Hwy 64 at Kate Hyde Rd., Bartlett TN
Built in 1912-1913, this Arts and Crafts-style hotel was designed by Fred Loring Seeley for Edwin Wiley Grove, and is known as the Grove Park Inn. Edwin Wiley Grove, whom had made his fortune selling Grove's Chill Tonic, used to help relieve symptoms brought on by malaria that was then endemic to the southern and midwestern United States, manufactured by his company, the Paris Medicine Company, which originated in Paris, Tennessee, before moving its operations to the larger city of St. Louis, Missouri. Grove had a summer house in Asheville, built circa 1897, prior to the construction of the inn, with Fred Loring Seeley, his son-in-law and business partner, having spent extensive time in the area with Grove and his wife, Evelyn Grove Seeley. The land upon which the hotel and nearby Kimberly Avenue neighborhood was later built was purchased by Grove in 1910, acquiring land all the way to the top of Sunset Mountain, as well as several tuberculosis sanatariums that Grove closed and demolished in order to change the reputation of Asheville’s health-focused resorts. Part of the land, atop Sunset Mountain, later became home to Seeley’s Castle, a large, Tudor Revival-style castle-like mansion built similarly of rough stone, and also designed by Seeley, but featuring more medieval appearance. The hotel went through several designs by various professional architects before Grove settled upon a design by Fred Loring Seeley, which featured a simple facade clad in rough granite stones, with a shingled cotswold cottage-style roof with dormers and curved edges, casement windows, and an all-concrete interior structure. The interior of the building was outfitted with Arts and Crafts furnishings and finishes designed and built by Roycrofters, a firm based in East Aurora, New York, and was opened in a ceremony with William Jennings Bryan as the keynote speaker. The hotel featured a large dining room in the northwest wing, with a tile floor and simple plaster walls, which sat next to the hotel’s original service wing, which housed the kitchen, laundry, and other service areas, a large Great Hall, serving as a lobby and lounge, in the center wing, with stone columns and massive stone fireplaces, a plaster ceiling, and a tile floor, and guest rooms on the upper floors, with a large atrium, known as the Palm Court, directly above the Great Hall, and four stories in height, crowned with a large skylight. The hotel was marketed as a health-conscious retreat for wealthy visitors. The hotel has hosted former United States Presidents William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard M. Nixon, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama in its over century-long history. The hotel was utilized during World War II to house diplomats from the Axis Powers, and later by the US Navy as a rest and rehabilitation center for returning sailors, and in 1944-45, as a US Army Redistribution Station, where soldiers rested before being assigned duties in other parts of the army. Following World War II, contingency plans in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States involved moving the US Supreme Court to the Hotel, as Asheville sat far inland in the midst of the Blue Ridge Mountains, a far more defensible location than many major cities, and had very little strategic value compared to most cities of its size. In 1955, the hotel was purchased by Sammons Enterprises, owned by Charles Sammons, and underwent a modernization, seeing the stone columns in the lobby stripped and clad in aqua-colored vinyl wallpaper, the addition of a pool to the southeast terrace, a large two-story concrete motel structure that sat southeast of the hotel along the hillside, and later, the addition of a wing to the southwest, which appears to have only lasted about a decade and a half before being demolished. In 1976, the Sammons family purchased the adjacent Asheville Country Club and Golf Course, before embarking on a major renovation and expansion of the hotel between 1982 and 1988, with the addition of the massive Vanderbilt Wing and Sammons Wing on the south facade of the building, obscuring the original service wing, northwest wing, and heavily altering the hotel’s appearance with their white EIFS-clad facades, postmodern rooflines based on the original hotel, bands of horizontal and vertical black-tinted glass curtain walls, and minimal usage of rough stone. The Sammons Wing contains conference spaces, a parking garage, and service areas for the hotel, with guest rooms along the southern and western edges of the building, with the Vanderbilt Wing containing hotel rooms along the southern and eastern edges of the building, wrapping around a central parking garage, and also containing a large multi-story atrium and restaurants. The original wing of the hotel was restored as part of this project, with the columns in the lobby being clad in oak surrounds, the stonework and roof being repaired, the palm court being brought back to its original appearance, and furnishings from the period of significance for the hotel being re-introduced to the interior. Around the turn of the millennium, the grounds in front of the historic inn and between the two modern wings was re-landscaped with waterfalls, terraces, and gardens, with a new Spa building being constructed below the hotel, partially underground, between the two wings, with the two previous swimming pools on the hotel grounds being closed at this time. In 2012, the hotel was purchased by KSL Resorts for $120 million, whom subsequently sold it to Omni Hotels in 2013, with the hotel being rebranded as The Omni Grove Park Inn. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, though this would not have been possible following the massive alterations the building underwent in the 1980s, as the renovations have significantly and irreversibly altered the historic hotel, and have removed several character-defining features, though this is understandable in that it was done to keep the hotel economically viable in the modern age of larger resorts and economies of scale, which made the hotel in its previous form no longer economically viable.
Airmen assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., work alongside Canadian Royal Air Force aerial port airmen to load a vehicle onto a running CRAF C-130J Hercules at Alexandria International Airport, in Alexandria, La., during Joint Readiness Training Center rotation 13-09, Aug. 21, 2013. The Canadian Royal Air Force provided C-130J and C-17 Globemaster II aircraft to support the large exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres/Released)
A convoy of Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles is lined up in a staging area and ready for departure on Contingency Operating Base Adder, Oct. 25. Daily convoys are carrying out more equipment as Operation New Dawn continues to draw down.
362nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
Photo by Spc. Anthony T Zane
Date Taken:10.25.2011
Location:TALLIL, IQ
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Scotland, near the Castle Stalker
when you plan something, but then you realize that nature wants to be the star .. I like here the fantastic colors of the sky, no retouched in PP! I just put my camera in Tripod, composed, put the filters and shot!
One shot, no HDR. I use only one filter for the correct exposure and polarizer.
I do not like to add my picture in many groups, please do not ask.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
APRA HARBOR, Guam (March 12, 2019) – Marines assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit return to Landing Craft, Utility (LCU) 1651, assigned to Naval Beach Unit (NBU) 7, during a simulated beach raid. The amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20), part of the Commander Amphibious Squadron 11, is operating in the region to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anaid Banuelos Rodriguez) 190312-N-DX072-1218
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More than 15 members of the 621st Contingency Response Wing board a C-130 Hercules going to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in response to Hurricane Matthews at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Oct. 7, 2016. Since Hurricane Matthews made land fall on Oct. 4, more than 350,000 people are in need of assistance, approximately 264 deaths reported, 14,330 are occupying emergency shelters, 6,000 persons are displaced, and some areas have been destroyed up to 80%. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Gustavo Gonzalez/Released) www.dvidshub.net
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Dustin Pavleski guides Senior Airman James Weimer as they back a next generation small loader onto an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft April 26, 2012, at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. Pavleski and Weimer are air transportation journeymen assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres)
U.S. Soldiers assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade lead a formation of Ukrainian National Guard soldiers on a two-mile walk, as part of Fearless Guardian, during Global Security Contingency Fund, in Yavoriv, Ukraine, Aug. 17, 2015. The Global Security Contingency Fund is a pilot program that provides U.S. Soldiers to provide training to the Ukraine National Guard in an effort to help strengthen Ukraine’s internal defenses. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Alexander Skripnichuk/Released)
EAST CHINA SEA (Feb. 8, 2020) Mineman 1st Class Shay Severns and Mineman 3rd Class Ryan Matas utilize the sonar system aboard the mine countermeasures ship USS Pioneer (MCM 9) to hunt for training mines. Pioneer, part of Mine Countermeasures Squadron 7, is operating in the 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response platform for contingency operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Alexander Fairbanks)
Staff Sgt. Fernado De Jesus, 621st Contingency Response Support Squadron, works on top of a Hardside Expandable Light Air Mobile Shelter during a Joint Readiness Training exercise at Alexandria International Airport, LA. April 16, 2016. JRTC is a multinational exercise focused on pre-deployment and airdrop capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua King)
CORAL SEA (June 23, 2017) - An AV-8B Harrier, assigned to the ÒTomcatsÓ of Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 311, takes off from the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6). Bonhomme Richard, flagship of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), is operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to enhance partnerships and be a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William Sykes/Released) 170623-N-XK809-068
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intersection traffic signal flashing yellow lights on and off modification controlled by Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Special Traffic Operations, Transportation and Traffic Management Plan Contingency Engineers during the operation of the Homeboy Industries 5 km Run Race Course Route, and College Street intersection traffic signal green lights, left turn protected permissive green arrow lights and pedestrian crosswalk crossing white walking lights, the following intersections are Alpine Street, Ord Street and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue intersections have traffic signal red yellow green lights on located at Chinatown Los Angeles, California 90012. Right hand side is the landmarks of Bamboo Plaza and Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
The former G.D.P. route was on Northbound Broadway (ended here until 2000) from Cesar E. Chavez Avenue to Bernard Street and Southbound Hill Street at Ord Street took place here until 2006 then the new current G.D.P. route travelled Southbound Broadway and made a left turn at East Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and ENDED at New High and Spring Streets for parade floats disbanding zone since February 2007 to February 2012 but now this Golden Dragon Parade route on Southbound Broadway turns right to Westbound Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and ENDS at North Hill Street overpass bridge for parade floats disbanding zone since February 2013 to present.
Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker 10k Run event race route will reach 0.1 mile = 160 meters ahead to the finish line festival
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This is where L.A. Chinatown Firecracker 10k run race route continues to Elysian Park uphill, Dodger Stadium, back to finish line.
這裡是洛杉磯中國城唐人街華埠火爆竹跑參加比賽路線將會剩下一百六十米公尺前往終點結束完畢在北百老滙街, 巴納街及和羅省洛市華埠中央廣場孟歐之風塔門
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This is the 5k Run Race Route of the Homeboy - Homeboyle Industries Chinatown, Solano Canyon, Naud Industrial Junction and Outer Los Angeles State Historic Park.
這裡是5公里小家子 (家仔) 工業跑步比賽路線跑往洛杉磯華埠, 蘇蘭諾山峽谷, 諾德工業樞紐及外洛杉磯州立歷史公園區.
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170614-N-DL434-333 PHILIPPINE SEA (June 14, 2017)
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) breaks away from the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) following a fueling-at-sea (FAS). Bonhomme Richard, flagship of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), is operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to serve as a forward-capability for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Gavin Shields/Released)
U.S. Soldiers with Dog Company, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade send a round down range from an AT-4 rocket launcher during a live-fire exercise at the 7th Army Training Command's Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Aug. 25, 2017. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army's Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting ready forces anywhere in the U.S. European, Africa or Central Commands' areas of responsibility within 18 hours. (U.S. Army photo by Markus Rauchenberger) www.dvidshub.net
Djiboutian Army 2nd Company 1st Rapid Action Regiment, Sgt. Abeh Abdallah, squad leader, aims his weapon during a contact drills practical application during infantry skills training in Ali Oune, Djibouti, Feb 2, 2011.
Photo by Master Sgt. Dawn M. Price
ALI OUNE, Djibouti– Under an overcast sky, nearly 200 members of the Djiboutian Army’s elite 1st Rapid Action Regiment honed their infantry skills, mentored by members of the U.S. Army National Guard’s 2nd Combined Arms Battalion, 137th Infantry Regiment.
The training included instruction on squad movements, convoy operations, contact drills, camp security and marksmanship, and was part of a one-month course which began Jan. 16 and culminated with a graduation Feb. 10. The instruction included mortar crew training and a combat engineering course, according to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Nelson Perkins, mission commander and member of Charlie Company.
“Our mission here is to mentor the Djiboutian military as they prepare for upcoming missions. We’re trying to help them so they are capable of preventing conflict, establishing regional stability, and protecting coalition interests here,” said Staff Sgt. Travis Elder, an infantry squad leader with the 137th, who is a sheriff’s deputy in his hometown located near Topeka, Kan.
“My team and I are out here mentoring the soldiers and helping them along, basically giving them more tools for their toolbox. We’re showing them things that have helped us get through certain operations, and we want to help them so they can get through their future missions without any problem,” he said.
One of the biggest challenges the instructors faced was the language barrier due to few Djiboutian soldiers speaking English, according to Sgt. Jonathan Moyer, a team member with Echo Company. Instructors relied heavily on 2nd Lt. Omar Ali, Djibouti Army 2nd Company commander, who is fluent in four languages, and Mohamed Said, a Somali-born U.S. Army interpreter.
Throughout the morning, the small groups practiced team movements, and communicated contact and direction of fire. Loud whistle bursts signified enemy contact, and the Djiboutian soldiers moved succinctly, went into the prone position and assumed their staggered firing positions.
The regiment, which was established in 1991 and is comprised of a number of 20-year combat veterans, is the first unit in the Djiboutian Army called to deploy during a contingency, according to Ali. The regiment also provides border security on the Somaliland border located approximately seven miles from the camp.
“The goal for my soldiers is to prepare them for their mission and especially for a deployment under the United Nations, like they did in Haiti and Central Africa,” Ali said, who has been in the army since 2001. He attended an officer’s course with Germany’s mountain troops from 2004-2008 and will soon attend the Infantry Career Captain’s Course at Fort Benning, Ga.
According to Ali, the training is part of a continuation of training that began in September 2010 that included effective methods of instruction, commander operation skills course, a command post exercise, and company grade and noncommissioned officer courses.
Just one month ago, the newly-formed training camp consisted of just six concrete pads. Today the camp consists of about 12 tents, a mosque and a large covered classroom area.
“Camp Ali Oune is actually the first of its kind. The Djiboutians don’t have any bases here on the Somali border, and this camp is supposed to be here for quite a while. They will be utilizing the camp as a training area and for continuing operations to keep this region safe,” he said.
About two miles away in the shadow of a steep hill, other members of the Rapid Action Regiment sharpened their marksmanship skills using the Russian PKM 7.62-mm machine gun, which is the equivalent of the M-249 Squad Automatic Weapon. Automatic gunfire and the ricochet of rounds echoed from the large rock-covered hill as each two-man team practiced firing in staccato bursts of three and five rounds.
“Very well done,” one of the instructors exclaimed after seeing a bullseye on the target of one team.
Ali said the training and mentoring provided by the 137th is beneficial because the cadre of instructors bring real-world operational experience.
“We already had a good relationship with the U.S. Army, and I have to say it’s a good thing and we have a good image of the U.S. Army,” Ali said.
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Aerial porters from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group off-load the unit’s gear from a Mississippi Air National Guard C-17 Globemaster III Oct. 4, 2014, at Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, in support of Operation United Assistance. More than 70 Kentucky ANG Airmen arrived with the gear to stand up an intermediate staging base at the airport that will funnel humanitarian supplies and equipment into West Africa as part of the international effort to fight Ebola. (U.S. Air National Guard photo/Maj. Dale Greer)
Soldiers from "Chaos" Company C, 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Advise and Assist Task Force, 1st Infantry Division, detonate C-4 explosives during engineer core demolition task training at a demolitions range outside of Contingency Operating Site Warrior, Iraq, Aug. 11, 2011. The unit used the explosives to remove obstacles, destroy fortifications, and breach doors.
United States Division-North
Date Taken:08.11.2011
Location:CONTINGENCY OPERATING SITE WARRIOR, IQ
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The religious phenomenon is reducible in the final analysis to a manifestation at once intellective and volitive of the relationship between the divine Substance and cosmic accidentality or between Atma and Samsara; and as this relationship comprises diverse aspects, the religious phenomenon is diversified in function of these aspects or these possibilities.
Every religion in effect presents itself as a "myth" referring to a given "archetype", and thereby, but secondarily, to all archetypes; all these aspects are linked, but one alone determines the very form of the myth. If the Amidist perspective recalls the Christian perspective, that is because within the framework of Buddhism it refers more particularly to the archetype which determines Christianity; it is not because it was influenced by the latter, apart from the historical impossibility of the hypothesis.
The average man is incapable, not of conceiving of the archetypes no doubt, but of being interested in them; he has need of a myth which humanizes and dramatizes the archetype and which triggers the corresponding reactions of the will and sensibility; that is to say that the average man, or collective man, has need of a god who resembles him. [Personal and dramatic in the case of Christianity; impersonal and serene in the case of Buddhism; the one being reflected sporadically in the other. We cite these two examples because of their disparity. Let us add that Arianism is a kind of interference within Christianity of the possibility-archetype of lslam, whereas inversely, Shi'ism appears within Islam as an archetypal interference of Christian dramatism.]
The Taoist Yin-Yang is an adequate image of the fundamental relationship between the Absolute and the contingent, God and the world, or God and man: the white part of the figure represents God and the black part, man. The black dot in the white part is "man in God” - man principially prefigured in the divine Order - or the relative in the Absolute, if this paradox is permitted - or the divine Word which in effect prefigures the human phenomenon; if cosmic manifestation were not anticipated within the principial order, no world would be possible, nor any relationship between the world and God.
Inversely and complementarily, the white dot in the black part of the Yin-Yang is the "human God”, the "Man-God”, which refers to the mystery of Immanence and to that of Theophany, hence also to that of Intercession and Redemption, or of the as it were "respiratory" reciprocity between earth and Heaven; if Heaven were not present in earth, existence would vanish into nothingness, it would be impossible a priori.
Herein is the whole play of Maya with its modes, its degrees, its cycles, its diversity and its alternations.
On the one hand the Principle alone is, manifestation - the world - is not; on the other hand manifestation is real - or "not unreal"- by the fact precisely that it manifests, projects, or prolongs the Principle; the latter being absolute, hence infinite for that very reason, It requires in virtue of this infinitude, the projection of Itself in the "other than Itself."
On the one hand the Principle has a tendency to "punish" or to "destroy" manifestation because the latter as contingency is not the Principle, or because it tries to be the Principle illusorily and with a luciferian intention, in short because "It alone is"; on the other hand, the Principle "loves" manifestation and "remembers" that it is Its own, that manifestation is not "other than It”, and within this ontological perspective the mystery of Revelation, Intercession, Redemption, is to be found.
It is thus that the relationships between the Principle and manifestation give rise to diverse archetypes of which the religions are the mythical crystallizations and which are predisposed to set in motion the will and sensibility of particular men and of particular human collectivities.
But the archetypes of the objective, macrocosmic and transcendent order are also those of the subjective, microcosmic and immanent order, the human Intellect coinciding, beyond the individuality, with the universal Intellect; so much so that the revealed myth, even while coming in fact from the exterior and from the ”Lord” comes in principle also from "our selves," from the interior and from the "Self”, That is to say that the acceptance of the religious Message coincides, in principle and in depth, with the acceptance of what we are, in ourselves yet at the same time beyond ourselves; for there where immanence is, there is also the transcendence of the Immanent.
To believe in God is to become again what we are; to become it again to the very extent that we believe, and the believing becomes being.
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Frithjof Schuon
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To Refuse or to Accept Revelation - From the Divine to the Human - Chapter 10
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (Edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE BASRA, Iraq (Aug. 12, 2010) Sailors assigned to Riverine Squadron (RIVRON)1, Boat Detachment 3, navigates under a low pedestrian bridge before landing security teams ashore. RIVRON-1 uses riverine assault boats to conduct joint security patrols along the Sha'at Al Arab Waterway. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Erik Reed/Released)
Spc. Kellen Busiek, of the Missouri National Guard, feeds his newborn baby daughter for the first time at a welcome home ceremony in Springfield, Mo., May 2, 2013. The Missouri Army National Guard's 935th Aviation Support Battalion, which draws Soldiers primarily from southwest Missouri, spent a year in Kuwait serving in support of Overseas Contingency Operations. (Ann Keyes/Missouri National Guard)
Security forces members assigned to the 621st Contingency Response Wing discuss the layout of camp defenses on the first night of Eagle Flag 13-2 March 18, 2013, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. Airmen from the CRW paired with Soldiers from the 690th Rapid Port Opening Element based at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., and participated in a U.S. Transportation Command Joint Task Force Validation exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres)
PHILIPPINE SEA (Mar. 14, 2017) - Marines, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), fast rope from an MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25, during training on the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) in support of amphibious integrated training (AIT). AIT is designed to integrate all elements of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (BHR ESG) and 31st MEU to test their ability to plan for and execute mission essential tasks. Bonhomme Richard, flagship of the BHR ESG, with embarked 31st MEU, is on a routine patrol, operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to enhance warfighting readiness and posture forward as a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kyle Carlstrom/Released) 170314-N-NB544-315
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File #4
Six months after Joker had been admitted to the Asylum the GCPD happened upon his contingency plan. A bomb built into a newly constructed wall beneath the Gotham cathedral. Analysis of the wall found that there was no way to remove the bomb without dismantling the wall which would bring the whole cathedral down. Thus there was only one option. Disarm the bomb before it could detonate. Joker had left the bomb on a timer that had been counting down from over the last six months and was due to detonate the next day.
In order to disarm the bomb a code was needed. Checking the keypad for prints yielded nothing, evidently Joker had the pad wiped clean after he activated the timer. That means the only way to disarm the bomb is to get him to hand over the timer. Needless to say, after the events in the tunnel of love, Jim was keen to keep me as far away from Joker as possible. As such it fell to Warden Quincy Sharp to convince Joker to hand over the code. Given how Arkham is regarded as a psychiatric hospital the guards aren’t allowed to use unconventional interrogation techniques so warden Sharp appealing to Joker’s human decency didn’t go down well.
Attachment: Warden Office CCTV – September 22nd 14:30
”Quincy old boy how are things? Still balding I see.”
“Do you know why I’ve called you here?”
”You’re finally retiring?”
“The bomb.”
”What bomb? That record Cash made?”
“The one under Gotham cathedral.”
”Bombing a church? That sounds more like Riddler’s MO. You know how much he loves insulting religion.”
“We know it’s yours.”
”I resent that! I’m not the only clown in Gotham with a love of explosives. Why’s it got to be me?”
“Probably because you signed the scene.”
”Oh yeah haha.”
“Give us the code.”
”Or what Sharpy? You gonna give me a stern talking to? Make me feel bad about myself?”
“You know this is wrong Jack.”
”WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?”
Joker charges forward at the Warden’s desk in anger, stopped only by Cash managing to grab hold of him.
”WHAT DID YOU SAY?”
“Tell me the code Jack. No-one needs to get hurt.”
”If you want my help then you know who I’ll talk to!”
“What if he doesn’t want to talk to you?”
”Then boom! Hahahaha.”
“Take him back to his cell, and get me Gordon on the line.”
End of attachment.
Ever since we first crossed paths after he murdered Loeb, Joker’s always had a case of waring personalities between two personas. Jack Napier, a wannabe comedian and the Joker, a clown trying to make the world smile by causing misery to others. After we faced off against one another the Joker persona has slowly but surely begun to dominate Jack to the point where I’m not entirely sure if Jack’s in there anymore. That was cemented after that night in ACE Chemicals. Joker was trying to gather the components necessary to mass produce a new variant of the Joker toxin. Thanks to an analysis of the toxin I was able to piece together that the only place he could gather the compounds necessary on such a large scale was ACE Chemicals.
With that foreknowledge I had the GCPD set a trap for Joker and his men. It all went exactly as I had hoped. All of Joker’s men were arrested by the GCPD but Joker seemingly escaped. What Jim and I didn’t know was that Joker ended up falling into a vat of chemicals during the firefight. He wouldn’t be discovered until the ACE Chemicals workers emptied the vat the following morning. Many believe that’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Since then there’s been no reports of the Jack persona being exhibited by Joker. I fear it can be speculated that my hopes of purging the Joker persona from Jack ended up merely cementing his presence.
Alfred’s always speculated that Jason’s murder was Jack lashing out for what I did to him. Maybe he’s right, but I like to think otherwise. Perhaps that’s just me being desperate and hoping that deep down I didn’t end up killing Jack Napier. Either way, I now have to deal primarily with the Joker persona, and I had to deal with him in order to get the code to disarm the bomb under Gotham cathedral.
Attachment: Therapy Session Recording – Joker #2
“Therapy session 2. Patient’s name: J……”
There’s a long pause on the tape. Without a video feed it’s difficult to tell what’s making her hesitate but it’s implied that Joker was staring at her rather intensly.
”Joker. Acting physician, Doctor Harleen Quinzel. Date of session 22nd of September. Previous session was cut short so this session is designed to make up the remaining time from the previous session.”
”Cash can be so rude interrupting our one on one time like that.”
”From what I hear it was the Warden who cut out session short.”
”Word travels fast around here.”
”Well it’s not everyday a patient gets called up to the Warden’s office. You must have done something serious.”
”I just gave him some advice on how to stop his head from balding.”
”Warden Sharp is balding?”
”I think he’s considering wearing a wig.”
”Really?”
”Yeah the silly old fool.”
”So, Joker….”
”Yes Doctor?”
”Going back to our conversation. Why do you find yourself obsessed with the Batman?”
”Why do you find yourself obsessed with me?”
”I ask the questions here.”
”You’re hoping that if you can understand me that you will be able to understand him.”
”Perhaps.”
”Tell me, what’s the market at the moment for a book about the mind of the Batman?”
There’s a long pause. Evidently Dr. Quinzel was shocked that Joker knew she was just using him to write a book.
”Must be pretty good if you’re willing to talk to one of Gotham’s grade A crazies.”
”You think of yourself as crazy?”
”You don’t?”
”…”
”The world’s a funny old place Doctor. It’ll do all it can to break you. The only thing that separates us from the animals is how we let the world break us. Some give up. Some fight back. Some go mad.”
”Is that what happened to you? The world tried to break you?”
”Of course.”
”Which action did you take?”
”What do you think?”
”…”
”You think I went mad.”
”You don’t?”
”Oh goodness no. I know I went mad. But unlike most, I accept it.”
”Who do you know that doesn’t?”
”Who do you think?”
”The Batman?”
”I couldn’t possibly say.”
”You think he’s mad?”
”Nooooooo……..I don’t think a man dressing up as a bat is mad the same way I don’t think a man dressing as a clown is mad.”
”Of course.”
”I suppose….”
”Suppose…?”
”In many ways you’re right.”
”How so?”
”He and I are alike.”
”Why do you say that?”
”I know it. He’s yet to accept it, but deep down he knows it as well.”
”You think Batman knows he’s crazy?”
”Maybe. Or perhaps he’s crazier than me?”
”I’m not sure many people would agree on that.”
”Probably not. But I at least know I’m crazy. If anything he’s mad to think he’s sane.”
”Maybe he is. But why do you think you’re mad?”
”Probably thanks to dear old daddy.”
”The one who hit you?”
”Do you know another?”
”So you think he’s the one responsible for who made you into this?”
”Goodness no. Sure daddy dearest didn’t help the situation but he didn’t make me.”
”Then what did?” The Batman?”
”Nope. All it took to break was one simple thing. One bad day.”
”What happened on that day?”
”Life destroyed my world.”
”What happened?”
”I…I…..”
”You can tell J. You can trust me.”
”I saw my wife murdered in front of my eyes.”
”….I didn’t know you were married…”
”I prefer it that way.”
”When was she killed?”
”Five years ago.”
”Just before you killed Commissioner Loeb.”
”It was that long ago? It feels like it was yesterday.”
”You feel remorseful?”
”I always do.”
”Then why do you keep killing more people if you don’t want to?”
”How else am I supposed to drown out the voices?”
”Voices?”
”Their screams.”
”You hear their screams?”
”Everytime I close my eyes. Sniff I just want to make them stop.”
”Hey hey it’s alright. It’s going to be alright. I promise.”
“Time’s up Doc.”
”Alright. Thanks Cash.”
“Are you crying clown?”
”Go to hell Cash.”
”We’ll be just a minute Cash. Session terminated at 16:30. Dr Quinzel signing off.”
Harley didn’t know it then, but Joker didn’t actually feel any remorse for his victims. In fact, he’s often taken pleasure from making them suffer slowly, but Harley didn’t know that and though she couldn’t tell, Joker had already set his claws into her.
SOUTH CHINA SEA (May 5, 2019) The mine countermeasures ship USS Patriot (MCM 7) turns to starboard after a replenishment-at-sea with the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Walter S. Diehl (T-AO 193). Patriot, part of Mine Countermeasures Squadron 7, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with partners and serve as a ready-response platform for contingency operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Corbin J. Shea)
the Master's TARDIS was lost while he fled the timewar and hid as Yana, but at some point soon after taking him onboard, the Doctor went back and found it, but it was apparently dead.
the Doctor hid the dead TARDIS somewhere inside their TARDIS and hoped the Master would never see it because (1) if it woke up, he might leave and (2) if it stayed dead, that would make him sad and desperate...
but he found it, and sometimes he hides in there, thinking about what his life has become now, trying to make contingency plans.
sometimes he talks to it as if it could still hear him. sometimes he screams and hits the walls, sometimes he cries quietly. sometimes he thinks he feels this silent broken thing starting to come alive, but it's always a false alarm... so far.
(thanks to Kat for part of the ideas...)
CORAL SEA (Aug. 22, 2017) Lt. Cmdr. John Kadz (right), assistant air officer of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), and Lt. Scott Lanum, the ship’s navigator, pose for a group photo with midshipmen on the flight deck of Bonhomme Richard.Bonhomme Richard, flagship of the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG), is operating in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to enhance partnerships and be a ready-response force for any type of contingency. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Cameron McCulloch/Released)
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Members of 42 Commando Fleet Contingency conducting high vertical assaults on RFA Mounts Bay as part of the Autonomous Advance Force 4.0 trials. 42 Commando Royal Marine’s Fleet Contingency Troop have been conducting high vertical assault drills onto RFA Mounts Bay in Portland Harbour, supported by Offshore Raiding Craft and Coxswains from 47 Commando RM.
The training forms part of the Autonomous Advance Force 4.0 trials, utilising modern communication systems and autonomous capabilities, including mobile ad hoc networking radios MPU5, Ghost drone, which provides a live feed to ground commanders and the MADFOX unmanned surface vessel, used to provide deception and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
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U.S. Air Force contingency response forces assigned to the 821st Contingency Response Group out of Travis Air Force Base, California, respond to a simulated gunfire attack at the Geronimo Landing Zone during a mission in support of Green Flag Little Rock exercise, Feb. 11, 2019, Fort Polk, Louisiana. The primary objective of the exercise was to support the Joint Readiness Training Center and provide the maximum number of airlift crews, mission planners and ground support elements to a simulated combat environment with emphasis on joint force integration. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Liliana Moreno) www.dvidshub.net
Spacecraft operations team manager for the Cassini mission at Saturn, Julie Webster, rips up the final contingency plan for the Cassini mission, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 in mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Since its arrival in 2004, the Cassini-Huygens mission has been a discovery machine, revolutionizing our knowledge of the Saturn system and captivating us with data and images never before obtained with such detail and clarity. On Sept. 15, 2017, operators deliberately plunged the spacecraft into Saturn, as Cassini gathered science until the end. Loss of contact with the Cassini spacecraft occurred at 7:55 a.m. EDT (4:55 a.m. PDT). The “plunge” ensures Saturn’s moons will remain pristine for future exploration. During Cassini’s final days, mission team members from all around the world gathered at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, to celebrate the achievements of this historic mission. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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Note: This is the new current Los Angeles Chinatown Lunar New Year Golden Dragon Parade clockwise route along on Southbound Broadway to Cesar E. Chavez Avenue and Spring Street operating since 2007 until present. The former G.D.P. route was on Northbound Broadway from Cesar E. Chavez Avenue to Bernard Street and Southbound Hill Street took place here until 2006.
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By Dave Palmer
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles County Post of the Society of American Military Engineers held a small business forum and monthly organizational meeting Nov. 8.
The morning featured panel discussions focusing on small business, many veteran-owned, and how they can team with federal agencies and the Department of Defense in nearly a half-a-billion dollars in small business contracts the District awards annually.
"In the panel discussions we had small business experts from federal and local agencies discussing how small businesses can get work," said Deputy District Commander Lt. Col. Steve Sigloch. "We had an attorney with 30-years in the business of dealing with all the regulations pertaining to small business. He briefed that in the past year almost 300 pages of updates were made, he went into some detail of those updates so small businesses are better prepared, better educated on how to qualify as a small business."
The guest speaker for the meeting, Brig. Gen. Ted Harrison, the Director of the National Contracting Organization, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has a wide range of contracting and procurement experience. For his talk, he focused on operational and contract support planning for emergency and contingency operations.
"As you well know the Corps of Engineers executes its mission by leveraging a very vibrant commercial sector through contracting support in just about every mission area," said Harrison. "On any given day, approximately 300,000 contract employees actively support our various projects around the world."
"Contingency operations, by their very nature, require a very short response time," he said. "Any contract support planning you can do ahead of time, before disasters strike or a contingency occurs, makes execution much more effective."
The past year was an exceptional one. The Corps of Engineers managed emergency operations from extreme flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to severe tornados in Alabama and Missouri.
"We have a series of contracts for our FEMA support mission that are called advance contractor initiatives," said Harrison. "They're in place now for large scale debris removal, ice and water, temporary housing and power generation. These are the missions that the Corps of Engineers has to support FEMA in disaster response and recovery. We also utilize small businesses in a great way in many of these contracts."
"We met and exceeded all of our goals, in contracting with small business, this past year," added Sigloch. "For fiscal year 2012 we're increasing goals by at least a percentage point or two in each category, based on historical past practice."
"You really have a commitment from the Chief of Engineers, right on down to the Districts that want to engage with you, that want to understand more about how you like to do business, and what our needs are and open dialog with you," Harrison added.