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The language featured on this can is Thai. As of the summer of 2017, Coca-Cola did not have a contract in Laos. However, the popular soft drink is imported from the socialist nation's southern neighbor.
This is one of my favorite places in Southeast Asia.
Luang Prabang (ຫລວງພະບາງ in Laotian or Louang Phabang), commonly transliterated into Western languages from the pre-1975 Lao spelling ຫຼວງພຣະບາງ literally meaning "Royal Buddha Image," is a city in north central Laos, consisting of 58 adjacent villages, of which 33 comprise the UNESCO Town Of Luang Prabang World Heritage Site. It was listed in 1995 for unique and "remarkably" well preserved architectural, religious and cultural heritage, a blend of the rural and urban developments over several centuries, including the French colonial influences during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The center of the city consists of four main roads and is located on a peninsula at the confluence of the Nam Khan and Mekong rivers. Luang Prabang is well known for its numerous Buddhist temples and monasteries. Every morning, hundreds of monks from the various monasteries walk through the streets collecting alms. One of the city's major landmarks is Mount Phou Si, a large steep hill which despite the constrained scale of the city, is 150 meters (490 feet) high, a steep staircase leads to Wat Chom Si shrine and an overlook of the city and the rivers.
The city was formerly the capital of a kingdom of the same name. It had also been known by the ancient name of Chiang Thong. It was the royal capital and seat of government of the Kingdom of Laos, until the Pathet Lao takeover in 1975. The city is part of Luang Prabang District of Luang Prabang Province and is the capital and administrative center of the province. It lies approximately 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of the capital Vientiane. Currently, the population of the city as a whole is roughly 56,000 inhabitants with the UNESCO protected site being inhabited by around 24,000.
Information from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luang_Prabang
American band BOYTOY performed a sold out show at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto. In picture: SAARA UNTRACHT-OAKNER, GLENN VAN DYKE and CHASE NOELLE
Nuestro cliente Piconto Interiorismo & Decoración nos ha hecho llegar fotografías de su ultimo proyecto, realizado parcialmente con lámparas de Karman. Podeis ver mas detalles del proyecto en su Facebook, vale la pena!
Cadets who meet the qualifications and agree to commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army are recognized in an annual ceremony, honoring their commitment and dedication. Comprised of freshman, sophomores and juniors, the ceremony signifies the beginning of each cadets responsibility to prepare themselves to be officers in the Unites States Army.
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The mobile phone. I got my first mobile about 12 years ago. Back then it was so simple. I took out a contract with Orange, there were two phones to choose from, the contract was relatively cheap.
I chose the “Nokia Orange” – it was much nicer than the awful piece of rubbish on offer from Motorola at the time. It was also the size of a house brick, the battery would last anything up to 18 hours if you didn’t actually use the phone at all. One quick call and you’d had it – standby time was then down to an hour or so. I had 15 whole minutes free per month and didn’t even know how to send a text message but then hardly anyone else I knew had a mobile so there was no point in sending one anyway.
Since those days I’ve not changed phones that often. A few more Nokias, A Siemens and my latest phone, an LG affair. Recently I got the idea in my head that it was time to change phones. My LG is about 3 years old and is pretty bashed around having had a few unplanned collisions with the pavement and so on. The battery life is getting a little erratic and the phone very occasionally switches itself off.
And so embarked on the task of finding a new phone. Oh god…ever wish you’d never started something? One thing has become apparent to me over the last few weeks. Since the days of my large and fairly useless “Nokia Orange”, phones seem to have gone through an upward and then downward development curve. They gradually evolved from huge, useless brick shaped things with hopeless battery life into smaller, sexier phones that had much, much better battery life and could do more. It now seems that high point is past and we now have a vast choice of phones which are all flawed in some way. So many phones now have the most ridiculously tiny keypads quite obviously not designed for human use, or they are hopelessly flimsy, cheap and awful. Or they have a useless battery life. Or are cursed with a tiny and unreliable joystick. Or they are so incredibly complicated that they struggle to do something as simple as just sending a text message. My latest attempt at a replacement handset was a Nokia that did seem pretty good – the keypad was designed for humans, the display was nice, and it seemed quite well built. But within a couple of days it started crashing on me, one key didn’t work properly and the battery cover fell off. Hmmm.
And the network providers don’t help the situation. The choice of contracts is quite incredible. There is a huge number of permutations of minutes, texts, handsets and so on but – maybe I’m just very awkward or something – none of them quite seem to be right. You can have a million texts a month and 20 minutes talk time, or the other way around. Or you can have a sensible balance of texts and talking but only if you have a really crap phone.
So, rather than regarding my old LG as a bit long in the tooth and due for replacement I suddenly realise it’s in fact a supremely rare and wonderful object in the phone world. It has a reasonable battery life, a nice display, a keypad not designed for those of us with pipecleaners in place of fingers. And even better – I managed to get it unlocked a while back. So here’s my plan : I will get a new contract with someone offering roughly what I want in terms of texts and minutes, take the SIM out of the piece of garbage phone they give me, put it in my old LG and put the new phone to a far more appropriate use, probably as a door-stop or a paper weight. So there!
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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This is my sister’s plane ticket for her flight from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro as a newborn in 1944. It may be hard to believe, but in those days São Paulo’s maternity services were superior to Rio’s, so my mother traveled from Rio, where my family was living, to São Paulo for the delivery.
Contracted image from the 2007 Annual Yoga Journal Conference in San Francisco, CA 01-20-07 and 01-21-07.
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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.
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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“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
Army Sgt 1st Class Samuel Agyapong (left), a contracting specialist with the
Army Contracting Command at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., and Air Force Tech.
Sgt. Nick Fisher (right) a contracting specialist with the 17th Contracting
Squadron out of Goodfellow, Texas, share contracting support techniques with
each other at during Operational Contract Support Joint Exercise 2014. "It
was great being mentored by the Air Force," Agyapong said. "Fisher has
shown me a lot." One of the main objectives of the joint exercise was for
members of the different military branches to learn best practices from one
another. Photo by Staff Sgt. Kenneth Pawlak.
Twenty contracted, professional chalk artists from around the country, and the public chalked up Marietta's streets Labor Day weekend during the Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art's annual ChalkFest.
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Congressional Liaison Specialist
ACC Office of Public and Congressional Affairs
U.S. Army
Captain
Company Commander, 199th PSC
Seoul, Korea
1983
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Ce bracelet est serti d'une boule brillante strass en argent 925 ou plaqué or de 8 mm de diamètre accompagnant ses pierres rondes naturelles de 8 mm également. Il sera livré dans son écrin à bijoux. Vous pourrez choisir la taille personnalisée* de votre bracelet mais aussi votre apprêt entre plusieurs : la boule strass unie et brillante en argent 925 ou plaqué or ; l'apprêt strass en argent 925 avec un sourire gravé comme le smiley et enfin la strass en argent 925 avec des sigles faisant penser aux jeux olympiques JO ! A vous de choisir !
En lithothérapie, on prête au péridot des vertus permettant de traiter et réduire les sentiments de jalousie, la rancœur, la méchanceté ainsi que le ressentiment. C’est également une pierre conseillée aux femmes enceintes pour leur accouchement pour gérer la douleur des contractions. Cette pierre est associée aux signes astrologiques suivants : Taureau, Lion, Balance, Capricorne.
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A rooftop dinner party with my book group to celebrate my first book contract. Which they, grudgingly, are going to have to read.
Salt storage at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, USA, a modern industrial park in a historical setting. With tenants representing a variety of industries like construction, theatrical set design, computer and office supplies, contracting, refrigerated distribution facilities, media communications and promotions, motor overhauling, and metal fabrication, the Navy Yard is capable of handling any type of business with a planned Multi-story Green Industrial Facility and New Green Manufacturing Plant.
Contracted image from the 2007 Annual Yoga Journal Conference in San Francisco, CA 01-20-07 and 01-21-07.
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17/10/2025
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