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Right before Thanksgiving 2012
After Keith & Jason sign the contract, Jason spurges his bonus check on a brand new Cooper to drive home to WA state for the Holiday season!
Alternative rock band DIE MANNEQUIN from Toronto, Ontario performed a sold out show at RIOT FEST 2015 Music Festival in Toronto. In picture: CAROLINE "CARE FAILURE" KAWA,KEVVY MENTAL,KEITH HEPPLER,J.C. SANDOVAL
Air Force Staff Sgt. Barry Bredell (left) an operational contracting support
specialist with the 56th Contracting Squadron at Luke Air Force, Ariz., and
Army Maj. Katrina Gawlik, an operational contracting support specialist with
the 414th Contracting Support Brigade of Vicenza, Italy, explain to a
disgruntled contractor role-player on the phone as to why he didn't win an
award. This scenario and many more were part of the simulation exercise
portion of Operational Contract Support Joint Exercise 2014 at the Mission
Training Center on Fort Bliss from Jan 5-31. Photo by Staff Sgt. Kenneth
Pawlak.
USS Harry S Truman(CVN-75) at Norfolk, VA on August-10th-2018.
USS Harry S. Truman is the eighth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, named after the 33rd President of the United States, Harry S. Truman.
The Contract to built her was awarded to Newport New Shipbuilding and Her Keel Was Laid down on November-29th-1993.
She was was launched and Christen on 7 September 1996 at Newport News, Virginia, and commissioned on 25 July 1998 with Captain Thomas Otterbein in command. President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker, and other notable attendees and speakers included Missouri Representative Ike Skelton, Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton.
HST was authorized and laid down as USS United States but her name was changed in February 1995 at the direction of then Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton.
Three Newport News ship workers died during construction when a pump room filled with methane and hydrogen sulfide gases during a sewage leak on 12 July 1997. They are commemorated by a brass plaque in the tunnel off Hangar Bay No. 1. The ship was christened on 7 September 1996, launched 13 September 1996, and the crew began moving aboard from contract housing in Newport News in January 1998. The ship successfully completed builder's sea trial on 11 June 1998 after a short delay due to noise issues in one of the reactor closure heads. The ship was officially accepted by the Navy on 30 June 1998 and was commissioned on 25 July 1998 at Naval Station Norfolk.
Commissioning
The keynote speaker of the commissioning ceremony was President Bill Clinton. Other notable attendees and speakers were: Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., who pushed to have the carrier named after the 33rd president; Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan; Captain Thomas Otterbein, Harry S. Truman's first commanding officer; Secretary of Defense William Cohen; and Secretary of the Navy John H. Dalton.
Harry S. Truman (also known as HST within the Navy[citation needed]) is 1,092 feet (333 m) long, 257 feet (78 m) wide and is as high as a twenty-four-story building, at 244 feet (74 m). The supercarrier can accommodate approximately 90 aircraft and has a flight deck 4.5 acres (1.8 ha) in size, using four elevators that are 3,880 sq ft (360 m2) each to move planes between the flight deck and the hangar bay. With a combat load, HST displaces almost 97,000 tons and can accommodate 6,250 crewmembers.
The warship uses two Mark II stockless anchors that came from USS Forrestal and weigh 30 tons each, with each link of the anchor chain weighing 360 pounds (160 kg). She is currently equipped with three 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts and two Sea Sparrow SAM launchers.
Harry S. Truman cost over $4.5 billion in 2007 dollars to construct.
Propulsion
Two Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors are used for propulsion, this means that the ship is capable of steaming more than three million miles before refueling. The ship has 4 five-bladed propellers that weigh 66,220 pounds (30.04 t) each and can drive the ship at speeds over 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph).
Signing my new Amish book contract with my agent, Sue Brower (left) and the publisher, Daisy Hutton (right).
One of the biggest lessons learned during World War II was that the United States would not always be able to count on allied nations to base their bombers. England had come very close to being overrun, which had been the impetus behind the B-29 Superfortress and the B-36 Peacemaker. In addition, the weight of nuclear bombs at the time was such that enormous aircraft would be required to carry them. Looking ahead to replacing the B-36, a specification was issued for a plane that could fly 10,000 pounds of ordnance 5,000 miles to a target and back at 300 mph. Boeing was awarded the contract in June of 1946 with its Model 462, a gigantic six-engined aircraft that would carry two crews; it was designated the XB-52. The USAF soon had second thoughts and asked Boeing for a smaller bomber with the exact specifications.
This began an arduous process, and the XB-52 went through several different designs, scaling down the design, adding wing sweep, and moving from a piston engine to a turboprop design. The USAF rejected all ideas as there was no overall improvement over the B-36 in terms of speed. After being rejected again on October 21st, 1948, by the USAF’s chief of bomber development, a team of Boeing engineers locked themselves in a hotel room for the weekend, only leaving to buy supplies at a hobby shop. By that Monday, the USAF was given the Model 464-49 and a model to go along with it: a swept-wing bomber powered by eight jets. At last, the USAF was satisfied, and objections to the engines were swept aside by General Curtis LeMay, the head of Strategic Air Command: the engines, he stated, would catch up to the design.
Finally, Boeing rolled out the first XB-52 in April of 1952; the USAF had already ordered 13 B-52As by this time, with the only significant change to the design being a switch from B-47 style tandem seating to a more traditional flight deck. So successful was the test program that only three B-52As were built: the Stratofortress, as Boeing had named it, was ordered into total production as the B-52B.
While teething problems, such as fuel leaks, plagued the B-52 fleet in the 1950s, it was considered very successful, rapidly replacing the B-36 and then the B-47. It showed its global reach in an around-the-world flight in January of 1957, which quickly broke the previous record set by B-50s. The B-52’s range and loiter times were proven in Operation Chrome Dome and Giant Lance deployments, where bombers from the continental U.S. would fly to points around the Soviet Union, wait at “fail-safe” locations in case of nuclear war, and then return to base. Following the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was thought that the B-52 force would not survive against Soviet surface-to-air missiles, and B-52s were switched to low-level penetration duties. There was fear that this would overstress the airframe, but the mighty BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Fellow) soldiered on.
Though built for nuclear war, the B-52 would instead experience its first combat missions high over the vast jungles of Vietnam. Because the B-52 flew at such a high altitude and was capable of carrying an enormous payload, it was hoped that B-52 strikes could surprise the Viet Cong and destroy them en masse in their jungle strongholds. Codenamed as Operation Arc Light, the first B-52 mission was undertaken by a mix of B-52Es and Fs in June of 1965. To increase payloads even more, the B-52D force was modified under Project Big Belly to carry over a hundred 750-pound bombs for a total payload of 60,000 pounds. These were first used operationally during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in November of 1965.
The effects of Arc Light were mixed: because of both operational restrictions and Rules of Engagement, VC and North Vietnamese Army units would often be gone by the time the B-52s arrived, with the bombs doing little but rearranging the South Vietnamese landscape. When a VC/NVA unit was caught in the open, however, as at Khe Sanh, the results were devastating. Several North Vietnamese divisions were destroyed in Operation Niagara, mass B-52 strikes around the besieged Marine base.
While restrictions had prevented B-52s from going into North Vietnam, those restrictions were gradually ended by President Richard Nixon, beginning in 1971. Unlike in South Vietnam, B-52s would be facing a much higher antiaircraft threat over North Vietnam, especially from SAMs and MiG fighters. With this in mind, the B-52D force was equipped with the latest electronic countermeasures under Project Rivet Rambler. The B-52s were sent north during Operation Linebacker (May-October 1972) but on a limited basis; the real test would come during Operation Linebacker II in December of 1972 when the B-52s attacked the city of Hanoi itself. The B-52Ds came off better than the later G models also committed to action: due to their Rivet Rambler ECM, SAM fire control radars had difficulty locking on in the mass of jamming in B-52D cells. Out of the 17 B-52s lost during Operation Linebacker II, only two of them were B-52Ds. As for their effectiveness, by the end of Operation Linebacker II, North Vietnam was effectively rendered defenseless and quickly returned to the negotiation table.
Vietnam was the last mission for the “tall-tail” D models. With the B-52Bs out of service and the B-52E/Fs being withdrawn by 1978, the B-52D continued in service until 1982, when it was retired, having hit the end of its airframe life. The B-52s would soldier on, but subsequent wars would be fought by comparatively newer, “short-tail” B-52G/Hs. A total of 28 B-52Ds survive in museums today, including both MiG-killer aircraft.
The "Lone Star Lady," known to the USAF as BuNo 55-0067, has had quite the career. First delivered to the 99th Bomb Wing at Westover AFB, Massachusetts, in 1957, it served with several units until it was deployed to Southeast Asia in 1967 for Arc Light missions. It remained in the region until 1970, when 55-0067 returned home and was assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing at Carswell AFB, Texas. Under Operation Bullet Shot, 55-0067 was quickly deployed back to U Tapao, Thailand for Operation Linebacker II, where it flew several missions over Hanoi; it was probably during Linebacker that she got the name "Lone Star Lady." It was one of the last B-52s to leave Southeast Asia, as it did not return to the U.S. until October of 1973, and flew several deployments to Andersen AFB, Guam during the 1970s, still with the 7th BW. "Lone Star Lady" finally called it a career in 1982 when she was retired with the rest of the “tall tails.” In 1984, it was donated to PASM.
Prior to my visit, I had seen another picture of "Lone Star Lady" where she looked somewhat faded, but now she looks gorgeous as ever! It is displayed in the Southeast Asia camouflage—the SAC color scheme was slightly different from that of tactical fighters, and the gloss black underside was added for nighttime operations. By the Vietnam era, the voluptuous ladies of World War II and Korea had disappeared, especially from SAC bombers, so the crews had to make do with a map of Texas and some rather groovy titling. A SAC patch is carried on the nose.
The B-52 is one of those old-school planes that I’ll never get tired of looking at, and there's something about the “tall tails” that makes the bomber look even more impressive. The object under the left wing is a McDonnell ADM-20 Quail remotely piloted decoy.
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WORKERS AT WORLDS LARGEST PORK PLANT RATIFY FIRST-EVER UNION CONTRACT
Deal raises Tar Heel workers’ wages and brings up benefits and working conditions to union standards
(TAR HEEL NC)—Five Thousand workers at the world’s largest pork processing plant have their first-ever union contract, after a majority of workers ratified the agreement over a two-day vote. Members of UFCW Local 1208 will join more than 10,000 other Smithfield workers, and more than 240,000 others who work in the meat packing and food processing industry who have a UFCW union contract.
2007 Day in the Life of a Law Library - 2nd place Librarians as Expert Researchers; 3rd place Overall Best Photo.
Un espacio arquitectónico singular decorado para rendir homenaje al elemento líquido
El interiorismo de este espacio se ha distribuido en zona de gerencia y el apoyo administrativo de la misma zona como un pequeño showroom para la presentación física del producto. Toda la instalación se ha impregnado con un valor comercial y de imagen, para lo que se ha trabajado con la más avanzada tecnología en recursos de exposición y representación gráfica.
“What inspires you to be a footballer?”
"Uff, what inspires me to be a footballer player? *grasp*… The Brazilian culture inspired me, to be a footballer player. Like I just, I see Ronaldinho init. Like obviously, your parents yeah, they thing you but. At the first thing where I would say, oh my god, bruv, man showed me Ronaldinho yeah and I just, pff, I said, it’s not even football it’s like dance. So I’d say like Brazil init, the country, because football also like, I wanted to learn language init, I wanted to learn Spanish, Coz in my head, I was putting things like. Ah if I go to Spain I could talk to these players in Spanish or if I learn Portuguese I could, like you know, I would do keepy uppies with Ronaldinho, things like that. So I would say the culture. Culture got, like inspired me. Because like obviously, there’s culture, and then there’s culture in football. There’s culture in that and that but like. The Brazilian culture, is like the culture is football init. So I would say the Brazilian culture, that’s inside me.”
- Zak Zekeriya Drummond
BNSF ballast trains are being loaded at the Martin Marietta Quarry in Waite Park. NLR crews are operating the trains between St Cloud Yard and the quarry.
Alternative rock band DIE MANNEQUIN from Toronto, Ontario performed a sold out show at RIOT FEST 2015 Music Festival in Toronto. In picture: CAROLINE "CARE FAILURE" KAWA,KEVVY MENTAL,KEITH HEPPLER,J.C. SANDOVAL
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Alternative rock band DIE MANNEQUIN from Toronto, Ontario performed a sold out show at RIOT FEST 2015 Music Festival in Toronto. In picture: CAROLINE "CARE FAILURE" KAWA,KEVVY MENTAL,KEITH HEPPLER,J.C. SANDOVAL
Between the 22nd and 26th of October 2012, COHRED, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, organised a week-long engagement on Fair Research Contracting. The meetings were held at the Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy. For more on the meetings and its outcomes, go to: www.cohred.org/bellagio-meeting/
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This chair dates between 1958 and 1968. In 68 the Universal Base replaced the Contract base on the aluminum and soft-pad groups. A shame since this base is very stately and clean.
I've been taking a few pictures for this guy for a project he's working on. He stopped by the other day to pick up a DVD of the shots I'd taken so far and a contract that says he gets to own the photos and I get a kickback if he makes any money off of the project. Since my back still hurt, I took his picture to be my picture of the day.
Later, Stef came over with some Steak and Shake and we hung out on the couch and watched some TV. I took her picture too, but decided to go with this one instead since I post a lot of shots of Stef in this flickr stream.
Oh, and I attempted to set up an appointment to see an actual doctor about my back issues, but the place I called doesn't have a back specialist.