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Ever feel like people see right through you? Sometimes I'd want to fade into the night under everyone's radar and just be by myself.
gridded sunpak pz42x cam right @1/32 (i think) double exposured layers and faded in post.
Route: 75 Ellsworth
Color: Azure Blue
Wrap: IT'S ELECTRIC (Port Authority, Duquesne Light Company)
2020 New Flyer XE40
Likely a Siemens ELFA2 Engine
Unknown Transmission
Operated by Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAAC/PAT), East Liberty Division (56)
Second XE40 to arrive in February 2020 which is when their existence was made public. After that, it and the other were used for training until the bus made its first revenue rounds at the end of March 2020
An independent film written and directed by Pradeep Shahi.
Lead actor, Harry Haroon.
Synopsis:
A terrorist suspected (Shahid) is being held and tortured in an unidentified location, somewhere believed to be in the Middle East. Locked in solitary confinement, he depends upon his faith and the memories of his wife and a son in these darkest hours of his life. A British government official (Mr Stanley) is his only hope for his freedom.
But things change when a teenage boy is detained in a solitary cell next to his. As the boy suffers torture and abuse, his faith diminishes as he questions the very existence of God. He then makes a desperate attempt to save the boy but only to find out the shocking truth about the boy, Mr Stanley and his very own existence. In this hard hitting gruesome drama, Shahid faces conflict between belief and realism.
The Egyptian Museum owes its existence to the Egyptian Antiquities Service, established by the Egyptian government in 1835 to limit the looting of Egypt's priceless artifacts. The museum opened in 1858 with a collection assembled by Auguste Mariette, the French archaeologist retained by Isma'il Pasha. It was originally housed in an annex of the palace of Ismail Pasha i
The Bell AH-1 Cobra (also called HueyCobra) owes its existence to the Vietnam War. While the proof of the air cavalry concept was being proven every day, the US Army was also losing huge amounts of helicopters to ground fire. Equipping the troop-carrying “slicks” with door guns helped, and arming the UH-1 Iroquois/Huey with weapons was another interim solution. Clearly, however, the solution lay with a dedicated attack helicopter that could defend the troop carriers.
Bell, the manufacturer of the UH-1, had been also experimenting with a concept of a heavily armed, turreted, and thin fuselage helicopter. The US Army awarded a proof-of-concept contract to Bell, which replied in a heavily modified Model 47 called the Sioux Scout. It failed to win any orders, but Bell kept at it even as the Army pursued the far more complicated and expensive AH-56 Cheyenne. This resulted in the Model 209, based on components of the UH-1 and the original conceptual design.
With the Vietnam War intensifying and the Cheyenne going nowhere, the Army issued a requirement for an interim solution, which the Model 209—built and tested in only eight months—won easily. The Army ordered 110 AH-1Gs in April 1966 and the type was in action in Vietnam a year later. It was highly successful there, and successive marks of the Cobra would continue to fight in America’s wars since—Grenada and both Gulf Wars. US Army Cobras were upgraded continually in the 1980s, resulting in a dizzying number of variants: the AH-1S (with upgraded engine), AH-1P (with flat glass windscreen), AH-1Q (with TOW missile system), AH-1E (with 20mm gatling cannon in nose turret), and AH-1F (with laser rangefinder and countermeasures). In 1988, the Army finally gave up and redesignated the whole lot as AH-1S.
US Army Cobras were finally retired in 2001, but USMC Cobras remain in service, with the fleet being converted to AH-1Z Kingcobras. Israel, Iran, and Pakistan likewise have used and continue to use their Cobra fleet, and it is generally considered to be the most successful and prototypical attack helicopter.
AH-1S 80-23518 was delivered to the US Army in the early 1980s; not much can be found about its career or any combat service. It was retired probably around 2001, and by 2010 it had been demilitarized and flown by San Joaquin Helicopters at Inyokern, California, as a forest fire spotter aircraft. By 2022, 80-23518 was acquired by the Arizona Army Aviation Heritage Foundation and brought to the Commemorative Air Force Arizona Wing Museum at Mesa, and restored back to its military configuration. It was on display by 2023.
80-23518 was painted as "Sand Shark," an AH-1S that served with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Operation Desert Storm. The name is carried on the engine housing, and "Sand Shark" has immaculate desert camouflage. It is displayed armed with eight AGM-71 TOW antitank missiles. Unfortunately, we visited on a pretty busy day, and so this was the best shot I could get with the Cobra wedged in between a lot of other aircraft.
For those who need to be reminded :)
Mission peak offers a very good hike just minutes from the valley.
Sadness once told me
Toil is all insane
I’ve got to be free
My dream shall I see
Freedom then flew me
Both far and near
To there and here
‘Til nothing could I hear
Fear crouched in me
Stole my faith away
blinded me completely
Left me broken wholly.
Faith swept right in me
and told me to be strong
to trust in the Almighty
He’ll give me a new song
Hope came back to life
walked me side by side
All the fear and sadness
Subtly faded; then died
Life spoke to me once more
and taught me how to live
In order to survive
To God my life, I must give
There is always a portion of people that we do not see. Will we perhaps be afraid when we find out who they truly are or will we look beyond their imperfections?
They look pretty lovable but don't try and give this guy a hug! By the way, it's almost impossible to snap a frontal view of one of these creatures ... You can follow them around for hours and they'll only allow you to see their needle covered behinds!
In the course of my life, I've probably spent hours, painfully attempting to remove these quills from the faces of my over-curious dogs.
When people go through life to live their own goals and find their own happiness, there isn’t a right or wrong. However, why do people put down other people’s happiness? Someone finds someone they love that has no harm on anything else, yet a group of people could shame their relationship. In the end, we’re all just floating on a rock in space. The universe is so big and some people are still set on the world being flat. History put humans as explorers and pioneers for the future and I want to be part of that. To see why else is out there. My mother sat me down to tell me how she always saw a determined girl ready to find the next biggest discovery. Either that or I’m putting my bows somewhere it doesn’t belong. I’m curious and nosy. She always thought I was wasting my time with science and exploring but she loved the fact I was determined. I was excited and persistent. I know there’s something out there and I want to see it. Just like humans who want to find something.