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1Z20-1018 Glasgow Central to Birmingham International "Celtic Freighter" which had taken in Riccarton, Knockshinnoch Washery and Newcumnock. Having taken over from 37029+37229 at Citadel, picture below, captured north of Carlisle.
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AB 800 with honeycomb grid right of camera @ 1/2 power
AB 800 with honeycomb grid left of camera @ 1/2 power
580EXII with blue gel behind subject @ full power
I just bought myself the Dyson DC24 today and my god is this thing a beauty! I've never wanted a vacuum this bad in my life and I've finally decided to splurge and get it. So far no regrets whatsoever; this thing is amazing.
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Made this sign with a screen shot of a dyson upright after watching the Craig Ferguson show. I wanted to make him smile. :) I do not own the rights to the dyson ball image, though we do have a dyson ball vacuum on the way, and this is completely within fair use.
My old vacuum plug broke, and being over a decade old, I decided it was time to upgrade. I heard so many great things about the Dyson, so decided to give it a go, despite the hefty price tag. I really tried to like it, but I just couldn't get in a groove with it. So, Darren fixed the chord on my old vacuum and my mom got a rockin' deal on a very slightly used Dyson. She has a lot of carpet and pets and seems to love it! So, it's all good!
I Don't Wanna Cry · Ronnie Dyson
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If You Let Me Make Love to You Then Why Can't I Touch You - Ronnie Dyson
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Ronnie Dyson - Biography
Ronald Dyson (June 5, 1950 — November 10, 1990) was an American singer and actor.
Early career
Born in Washington, D.C., Dyson grew up in Brooklyn, New York where he sang in church choirs. At just 18 years of age, he won a lead part in the Broadway production of Hair, debuting in New York in 1968. Dyson became an iconic voice of the 1960s with the lead vocal in the show’s anthem of the hippie era, “Aquarius”. It is Dyson’s voice leading off the song and opening the show with the famous lyric “When the Moon is in the seventh house, and Jupiter aligns with Mars…”
Later career
Dyson also appeared in the 1969 film Putney Swope.
After Hair, Dyson pursued his stage career with a role in Salvation in 1970. His recording of a song from the Salvation score, “(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can’t I Touch You?”, successfully launched his record career, breaking into the Top 10 of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number eight in 1970. The follow-up, “I Don’t Wanna Cry”, was a strong US R&B seller, climbing to number nine.
In 1971, “When You Get Right Down To It”, of which his was a more dramatic cover version of a song that had been a hit the previous year for The Delfonics, made the US charts, and reached number 34 on the UK Singles Chart in December that year.
His record company, Columbia Records, sent him to Philadelphia in 1973 to be produced by Thom Bell, one of the premier producers of the day, for several tracks. Bell’s highly orchestrated style suited Dyson with hits including “One Man Band (Plays All Alone)”, which reached number 28 on the Hot 100 and number 15 on the R&B chart, and “Just Don’t Want to Be Lonely” peaking at number 60 on the Hot 100 and number 29 on the R&B chart. These appeared on an album which was also made up of re-mixes of some earlier recordings, including “When You Get Right Down To It”.
Dyson remained with Columbia working with top-line producers for another three albums, The More You Do It (1976), Love in All Flavors (1977) and If The Shoe Fits (1979). The title track of the first of the three resulted in one of the singer’s biggest-selling records, reaching number six on the R&B chart. It was produced by Charles “Chuck” Jackson (half brother of Jesse Jackson and no relation to the more famous singer of the same name who, interestingly enough, recorded for the same company in the ‘60’s) and Marvin Yancy, who had been responsible for successfully launching the career of Natalie Cole with a series of hits. (Jackson and Yancy had also produced hits for a Chicago soul group, The Independents, with whom Jackson was also lead singer.)
Dyson then moved to an Atlantic Records subsidiary label, the Cotillion Records label, in 1981 for two albums and several singles which were only moderately successful. His acting and singing career had begun to stall in the late 1970s due to ill health, and it was in 1983 that Dyson appeared on the R&B chart for the last time on Cotillion with “All Over Your Face”. His final solo recording was “See The Clown” in 1990.
Death
Dyson died at the age of 40 from heart failure in late 1990, in Brooklyn, New York.
Legacy
A posthumous release on Society Hill Records appeared in 1991, when a duet with Vicki Austin, “Are We So Far Apart (We Can’t Talk Anymore)”, dented the US R&B chart, reaching number 79 during a five-week run.
Notes: taken by Jane Chadwick, daughter of Jim Starkey who took the original 1927 photo of the hut
Format: colour digital photograph
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library library.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/
Part of: Local Studies Collection, Starkey collection
Provenance: Jane Chadwick
Oscar Dyson is a NOAA Fisheries vessel. I made this in LDD and will build it with tangible bricks sometime soon
After some bending and shaping we have got it done. Using two two pound coins to space the lats and fixing with stainless bolts. The keroin half lat we used was bought the day before we used it form the timber yard but we found that the small off cut were splitting apart?
Selected by NASA in June 1998, Caldwell Dyson reported for training in August 1998. In 1999, she was first assigned to the Astronaut Office ISS Operations Branch as a Russian Crusader, participating in the testing and integration of Russian hardware and software products developed for ISS.
In 2000, she was assigned prime Crew Support Astronaut for the 5th ISS Expedition crew, serving as their representative on technical and operational issues throughout the training and on-orbit phase of their mission. Caldwell Dyson has worked inside Mission Control as spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) for both Space Shuttle and ISS operations, serving also as the lead CAPCOM for ISS Increment 11.
Other technical assignments have included flight software verification in the Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory (SAIL) and supporting Shuttle launch and landing operations at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. During her two flights, Caldwell Dyson logged over 188 days in space, including more than 22 hours in 3 EVAs.
STS-118 (August 8-21, 2007) was the 119th Space Shuttle flight, the 22nd flight to the International Space Station (ISS), and the 20th flight for Endeavour. During the mission Endeavour's crew successfully added truss segment S5 and a new gyroscope to the ISS. As MS-1, Caldwell Dyson assisted in flight deck operations on ascent and also aided in rendezvous/docking operations with the ISS. Caldwell Dyson operated Endeavour’s robotic arm to maneuver the Orbiter Boom Sensor System (OBSS) and hand over the S5 truss segment to the ISS, and also served as the intravehicular or “IV” crewmember, directing the four spacewalks. Traveling 5.3 million miles in space, the STS-118 mission was completed in 12 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes and 34 seconds.
Caldwell Dyson launched aboard a Soyuz TMA-18 crew capsule on April 2, 2010, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, docking with the International Space Station two days later to join the Expedition 23 crew. For the next 174 days, Caldwell Dyson lived and worked aboard the International Space Station as a Flight Engineer on Expedition 23/24. Caldwell Dyson performed three successful contingency spacewalks to remove and replace the failed pump module on ISS, logging 22 hours and 49 minutes of EVA time. The Expedition 24 crew returned to a safe landing in central Kazakhstan on September 25, 2010. In completing this long duration mission, Caldwell Dyson logged a total of 176 days in space.
Sir James Dyson puts on Dyson product launch with a difference: Sydney, Australia...
Sir James Dyson, the British billionaire industrial designer (not to be confused with Tony Stark from Iron Man - Marvel Comics fame) who invented the dual cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, has just finished hosting his fabulous launch event at the Sydney Theatre Co Ltd, Pier 4.
It's understood he took a fair swipe at "competitor) robot vacuums as "pathetic" with poor suction and no navigating skills. Yes, the others suck - but not in a good way.
A lot of the (product) attention was on his latest product, a tap that can also dry your hands in about 12 seconds. Dyson, who rocketed his company to nearly 4000 staff and $1.5 billion in annual sales, advised he would only launch a robot vacuum when he got it right.
New product snapshot - the Dyson hybrid dryer-tap...
Robot models launched in Australia recently include the $399 Robomaid, LG's Roboking range ($549-$1149) and Samsung's $999 Navibot. Dyson didn't name and shame but was dismissive of the current lot, criticising their navigation and efficiency which meant they offered poor battery performance and cleaning ability.
"They've got whiskers sticking out of them – whiskers don't clean anything they just disturb the birds," he told Fairfax Media.
"It's a difficult job and I'm not rushing out a gimmick robot to pretend to people we're cleaning the floor, we're not doing that we're doing it properly."
Robomaid is one of the robot vacuums on the market.
Despite coming up with his vacuum cleaner breakthrough in the late 1970s, it only reached the British market 10 years later, and Dyson is now a global market leader. A third of British homes now have a Dyson.
The company has also launched other innovations such as bladeless fans and an "Airblade" hand dryer that uses jets of air to scrape the water off the hands. The same sort of technology but with a far more advanced motor ("three times faster than any electric motor has gone before") powers the new hybrid dryer-taps.
Dyson has wrestled for years to prevent companies copying his designs, winning a $5 million damages award from Hoover in 2000. Now, the main offenders are out of Asia and Dyson thinks intellectual property protection is weaker because people are getting away with copying.
"Koreans and the Chinese are copying things and I think it's very bad," he said. "It's said by certain people that that increases competition, actually it decreases competition because all they're doing is copying the market leader."
He said the copycat companies could produce cheaper products because they haven't incurred all the development costs and associated risks.
"It's morally wrong, I think it's legally wrong and I think it hurts the consumers because the consumer doesn't get a choice," he said. "Intellectual property should be supported better; the law should be made stronger."
In October last year Dyson filed a lawsuit alleging a "spy" employee stole the blueprints to a £100 million ($149.7 million) technology and passed them to rival Bosch.
Dyson said western countries such as Australia and Britain need to focus on educating more scientists and engineers, as they are increasingly being overtaken by countries in Asia.
"40 per cent of all graduates from Singapore are engineers," he said. "For Britain, Australia, the US and other European countries to compete in any way they've got to heavily arm themselves with technology."
Classy event in Sydney...
It wasn't a cheap and nasty event, as is too often the case with product launches. Dyson impressed with wit, goodwill and loads of great food and drinks, which looked and tasted 5 star. It was a great vibe and news media was treated with respect, friendliness and delicious treats. How could we not share the story and photos far and wide across media and internet - which was no doubt another masterstroke by the colourful billionaire and his brains trust. If you have the budget - Dysons' are well worth a close look.
Websites
Dyson Australia
Eva Rinaldi Photography
Given its shape the male appears to have suffered a severe blunt force trauma to the back of the head. X-Rays showed this not to be the case and the odd shape is caused by the skull shrinking to fit the Duck's small brain.
The female seems to have a normal sized skull and brain but what is "normal" about a duck crossed with a vacuum cleaner.
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The Dyson Duck was first seen on *Bird Table Bridge in the spring of 2014.
Seems to be confined to the stretch of the Trent & Mersey canal between Locks 64 and 65 and spending an increasing amount of time feeding on dry land; especially on the bridge where the Wheelock Rail Trail passes over the canal.
The Dyson Duck is becoming increasingly tolerant towards ramblers, amblers, dog walkers, joggers and cyclists. It will continue to suck up bird seed with no signs of alarm or distress whoever, or whatever, passes by.
*Named by the Wildman of Wheelock as "Bird Table Bridge" a number of local residents regularly leave bird food on the bridge, rain or shine, at various times of the day.
Wheelock Rail Trail, Sandbach, Cheshire April 2015
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Now this is the story all about how
My life got flipped, turned upside down
And Id like to take a minute just sit right there
Ill tell you how I became the prince of a town called bel-air
In west philadelphia born and raised
On the playground where I spent most of my days
Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool
And all shooting some b-ball outside of the school
When a couple of guys said were up in no good
Started making trouble in my neighbourhood
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared
And said youre moving with your aunte and uncle in bel-air
I whistled for a cab and when it came near the
Licensplate said fresh and had a dice in the mirror
If anything I could say that this cab was rare
But I thought now forget it, yo home to bel-air
I pulled up to a house about seven or eight
And I yelled to the cabby yo, home smell you later
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there
To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air