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...is his girl friend suddenly show up in front of him.
Project 262/365
Taoyuan Road, Nanning, Guangxi, China
Olympus Pen E-P2 + Panasonic Lumix 20mm F/1.7
Konstanzer Seenachfest
This is a firework kinda-festival, i think biggest in Germany, which is going on in this beautiful city on Bodensee with its neighbouring Swiss city Kreuzlingen...Every year in August and it lasts about 30-45 minuntes.
I have seen it couple of times, now it seemed so much photographic to see how expectant everyone was waiting for it!...hope the processing is good enough!
Police officers spend their professional lives trying to play down the public order implications of demonstrations - it's in their interests to keep things calm
But the enormous logistical challenges of providing the world's leaders with security, amid widespread expectation of substantial protests, has led the capital's top officers to issue exceptional warnings about this week's G20 meeting in London.
Last week, Commander Simon O'Brien, one of the senior officers involved in planning the events, said the capital was about to see an "almost unprecedented level of activity" with seven officially notified demonstrations - and potentially many more they don't know about.
It's little wonder that Scotland Yard is describing the G20 policing plan as one of the largest, most challenging and complicated public order operations it has ever devised.
If anyone wants to come to London to engage in crime or disorder, they will be met with a swift and efficient policing response
Commander Simon O'Brien
Metropolitan Police
Events begin on Monday with the three-day state visit to the UK by the President of Mexico.
At the same time, thousands of officials from the other G20 delegations will be arriving in London.
On Wednesday, large "direct action" events are predicted in the Square Mile (although by no means guaranteed) in the shape of the over-lapping "Fossil and Financial Fools Day" protests and the "G20 Meltdown".
At the same time the seemingly well-resourced Climate Camp group says its supporters will try to build a tent city in the middle of one of London's busiest roads to protest against the carbon trading market.
Meanwhile, a couple of miles away, the Stop the War coalition will march from the US Embassy to Trafalgar Square.
And then as evening approaches, there's the small matter of Wembley turning on the floodlights for England's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine.
As for Thursday, the day of the G20 itself, all police can honestly say at the moment is that the picture is "still emerging".
And did we mention that London is a city where there might be a few people trying to get to work and back?
So when officers describe this coming week as a "fluid and dynamic situation", that's something of an understatement.
Click here for a map of expected protests
The security strategy for all of this boils down to something that resembles a three-dimensional ever-changing puzzle. The Met needs to be prepared for a virtually unlimited number of scenarios.
Some 84,000 police man-hours have been allocated to the entirety of Operation Glencoe, the G20 security strategy. All police leave has been cancelled in London for Wednesday and Thursday.
OFFICIAL ADVICE TO CITY FIRMS
Cancel meetings
No entry without ID
Check ID outside buildings first
Minimise entry and exits
Review external smoking areas
Check CCTV equipment
Don't antagonise protesters
Source: City of London Police
Six police forces are part of the £7.5m security plan. The Metropolitan Police is naturally leading - but also calling in colleagues from the City of London and British Transport Police.
Outside of the M25 motorway, officers from Bedfordshire, Essex and Sussex will have critical roles in securing the arrival and transfer of delegations to their virtual bunkers in embassies and hotels.
Don't expect to see President Barack Obama waving from his bomb-proof limousine; he'll walk down the steps of Airforce One at Stansted Airport and board his presidential helicopter for the short hop to the West End.
Inside the capital, police will co-ordinate the movement of these entourages and create a sterile environment at the Excel centre, base for the talks in East London's Canning Town.
The security arrangements at Excel are so rigorous that Newham Council is warning some residents will find it difficult to get into their own homes.
Three Docklands Light Railway stations will close, along with the roads nearest the centre. Pedestrian access will be severely limited and residents will need to carry two forms of identification.
Old faces
Police intelligence suggests the return of "some old faces" to the protest scene - although officers will not be drawn publicly on what that means.
G20 Meltdown poster
Police want "dialogue" with groups planning demonstrations
The level of activity on the net, and its style, suggests a re-emergence of groups which share the aims and tactics of some of the anti-globalisation protesters who turned to violence in 2000 and 2001.
While the Met has tried-and-tested tactics to deal with violence, its strategy for the street occupation promised by the Climate Camp is more difficult to call.
Scotland Yard will not be drawn on how it will respond if the camp turns into something significant, other than its commanders have "flexible plans".
It admits that its overall plans are being informed by the wealth of information now being posted online by the protest organisers.
This internet activity is also helping City firms decide how to prepare. Firms spoken to by the BBC were reluctant to go on the record about any of their specific plans.
Many have turned to private security consultants, who, in turn, are keeping a watchful eye on any specific threats that emerge online. At present, City of London Police are telling firms to cancel unnecessary meetings and deliveries, beef up building security and keep a low profile.
Unpredictable
Each year the Met deals with about 4,500 events requiring visible public order policing. They range from innocuous Boy Scout marches through to the recent angry scenes outside Israel's embassy.
The Genoa 2001 protests
Officials hope to avoid the violence of the 2001 G8 in Genoa
Police believe that if there is a big turn-out on Wednesday and Thursday, the vast majority of people will peacefully make their voices heard.
Past experience suggests unorthodox and imaginative street events can be inconvenient - but also benign.
The unknowable factor is the demonstrator bent on violence.
The police will be determined to avoid the internationally embarrassing scenes of the 2001 G8 in Genoa in which one protester was killed and hundreds more injured.
So with three days to go, the police say their message to protesters is clear.
"Come forward and make contact with us so we can make sure that your [legitimate] aims are achieved," says Commander O'Brien.
"But there are groups that by their very ethos won't talk to us. The groups which enter dialogue with us, we will facilitate [their events].
"We will not tolerate anyone breaking the law, be it by attacking buildings, people or our officers.
"We are looking to police peaceful protest. We don't talk in terms of riots. If anyone wants to come to London to engage in crime or disorder, they will be met with a swift and efficient policing response."
Police officers spend their professional lives trying to play down the public order implications of demonstrations - it's in their interests to keep things calm
But the enormous logistical challenges of providing the world's leaders with security, amid widespread expectation of substantial protests, has led the capital's top officers to issue exceptional warnings about this week's G20 meeting in London.
Last week, Commander Simon O'Brien, one of the senior officers involved in planning the events, said the capital was about to see an "almost unprecedented level of activity" with seven officially notified demonstrations - and potentially many more they don't know about.
It's little wonder that Scotland Yard is describing the G20 policing plan as one of the largest, most challenging and complicated public order operations it has ever devised.
If anyone wants to come to London to engage in crime or disorder, they will be met with a swift and efficient policing response
Commander Simon O'Brien
Metropolitan Police
Events begin on Monday with the three-day state visit to the UK by the President of Mexico.
At the same time, thousands of officials from the other G20 delegations will be arriving in London.
On Wednesday, large "direct action" events are predicted in the Square Mile (although by no means guaranteed) in the shape of the over-lapping "Fossil and Financial Fools Day" protests and the "G20 Meltdown".
At the same time the seemingly well-resourced Climate Camp group says its supporters will try to build a tent city in the middle of one of London's busiest roads to protest against the carbon trading market.
Meanwhile, a couple of miles away, the Stop the War coalition will march from the US Embassy to Trafalgar Square.
And then as evening approaches, there's the small matter of Wembley turning on the floodlights for England's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine.
As for Thursday, the day of the G20 itself, all police can honestly say at the moment is that the picture is "still emerging".
And did we mention that London is a city where there might be a few people trying to get to work and back?
So when officers describe this coming week as a "fluid and dynamic situation", that's something of an understatement.
Click here for a map of expected protests
The security strategy for all of this boils down to something that resembles a three-dimensional ever-changing puzzle. The Met needs to be prepared for a virtually unlimited number of scenarios.
Some 84,000 police man-hours have been allocated to the entirety of Operation Glencoe, the G20 security strategy. All police leave has been cancelled in London for Wednesday and Thursday.
OFFICIAL ADVICE TO CITY FIRMS
Cancel meetings
No entry without ID
Check ID outside buildings first
Minimise entry and exits
Review external smoking areas
Check CCTV equipment
Don't antagonise protesters
Source: City of London Police
Six police forces are part of the £7.5m security plan. The Metropolitan Police is naturally leading - but also calling in colleagues from the City of London and British Transport Police.
Outside of the M25 motorway, officers from Bedfordshire, Essex and Sussex will have critical roles in securing the arrival and transfer of delegations to their virtual bunkers in embassies and hotels.
Don't expect to see President Barack Obama waving from his bomb-proof limousine; he'll walk down the steps of Airforce One at Stansted Airport and board his presidential helicopter for the short hop to the West End.
Inside the capital, police will co-ordinate the movement of these entourages and create a sterile environment at the Excel centre, base for the talks in East London's Canning Town.
The security arrangements at Excel are so rigorous that Newham Council is warning some residents will find it difficult to get into their own homes.
Three Docklands Light Railway stations will close, along with the roads nearest the centre. Pedestrian access will be severely limited and residents will need to carry two forms of identification.
Old faces
Police intelligence suggests the return of "some old faces" to the protest scene - although officers will not be drawn publicly on what that means.
G20 Meltdown poster
Police want "dialogue" with groups planning demonstrations
The level of activity on the net, and its style, suggests a re-emergence of groups which share the aims and tactics of some of the anti-globalisation protesters who turned to violence in 2000 and 2001.
While the Met has tried-and-tested tactics to deal with violence, its strategy for the street occupation promised by the Climate Camp is more difficult to call.
Scotland Yard will not be drawn on how it will respond if the camp turns into something significant, other than its commanders have "flexible plans".
It admits that its overall plans are being informed by the wealth of information now being posted online by the protest organisers.
This internet activity is also helping City firms decide how to prepare. Firms spoken to by the BBC were reluctant to go on the record about any of their specific plans.
Many have turned to private security consultants, who, in turn, are keeping a watchful eye on any specific threats that emerge online. At present, City of London Police are telling firms to cancel unnecessary meetings and deliveries, beef up building security and keep a low profile.
Unpredictable
Each year the Met deals with about 4,500 events requiring visible public order policing. They range from innocuous Boy Scout marches through to the recent angry scenes outside Israel's embassy.
The Genoa 2001 protests
Officials hope to avoid the violence of the 2001 G8 in Genoa
Police believe that if there is a big turn-out on Wednesday and Thursday, the vast majority of people will peacefully make their voices heard.
Past experience suggests unorthodox and imaginative street events can be inconvenient - but also benign.
The unknowable factor is the demonstrator bent on violence.
The police will be determined to avoid the internationally embarrassing scenes of the 2001 G8 in Genoa in which one protester was killed and hundreds more injured.
So with three days to go, the police say their message to protesters is clear.
"Come forward and make contact with us so we can make sure that your [legitimate] aims are achieved," says Commander O'Brien.
"But there are groups that by their very ethos won't talk to us. The groups which enter dialogue with us, we will facilitate [their events].
"We will not tolerate anyone breaking the law, be it by attacking buildings, people or our officers.
"We are looking to police peaceful protest. We don't talk in terms of riots. If anyone wants to come to London to engage in crime or disorder, they will be met with a swift and efficient policing response."
I clearly remember the VC10 returning as a feature of the SBAC show at Farnborough back in 1982.
Previously operated by BOAC and Gulf Air, ZA141 wore a green and grey camouflage which was not be repeated on further examples.
Not the best photo, but it serves a memory.
Farnborough, Hampshire
8th September 1982
Pentax MX, Kodachrome
19820908 21130 ZA141 FRN clean std
Expectation vs. Reality
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Police officers spend their professional lives trying to play down the public order implications of demonstrations - it's in their interests to keep things calm
But the enormous logistical challenges of providing the world's leaders with security, amid widespread expectation of substantial protests, has led the capital's top officers to issue exceptional warnings about this week's G20 meeting in London.
Last week, Commander Simon O'Brien, one of the senior officers involved in planning the events, said the capital was about to see an "almost unprecedented level of activity" with seven officially notified demonstrations - and potentially many more they don't know about.
It's little wonder that Scotland Yard is describing the G20 policing plan as one of the largest, most challenging and complicated public order operations it has ever devised.
If anyone wants to come to London to engage in crime or disorder, they will be met with a swift and efficient policing response
Commander Simon O'Brien
Metropolitan Police
Events begin on Monday with the three-day state visit to the UK by the President of Mexico.
At the same time, thousands of officials from the other G20 delegations will be arriving in London.
On Wednesday, large "direct action" events are predicted in the Square Mile (although by no means guaranteed) in the shape of the over-lapping "Fossil and Financial Fools Day" protests and the "G20 Meltdown".
At the same time the seemingly well-resourced Climate Camp group says its supporters will try to build a tent city in the middle of one of London's busiest roads to protest against the carbon trading market.
Meanwhile, a couple of miles away, the Stop the War coalition will march from the US Embassy to Trafalgar Square.
And then as evening approaches, there's the small matter of Wembley turning on the floodlights for England's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine.
As for Thursday, the day of the G20 itself, all police can honestly say at the moment is that the picture is "still emerging".
And did we mention that London is a city where there might be a few people trying to get to work and back?
So when officers describe this coming week as a "fluid and dynamic situation", that's something of an understatement.
Click here for a map of expected protests
The security strategy for all of this boils down to something that resembles a three-dimensional ever-changing puzzle. The Met needs to be prepared for a virtually unlimited number of scenarios.
Some 84,000 police man-hours have been allocated to the entirety of Operation Glencoe, the G20 security strategy. All police leave has been cancelled in London for Wednesday and Thursday.
OFFICIAL ADVICE TO CITY FIRMS
Cancel meetings
No entry without ID
Check ID outside buildings first
Minimise entry and exits
Review external smoking areas
Check CCTV equipment
Don't antagonise protesters
Source: City of London Police
Six police forces are part of the £7.5m security plan. The Metropolitan Police is naturally leading - but also calling in colleagues from the City of London and British Transport Police.
Outside of the M25 motorway, officers from Bedfordshire, Essex and Sussex will have critical roles in securing the arrival and transfer of delegations to their virtual bunkers in embassies and hotels.
Don't expect to see President Barack Obama waving from his bomb-proof limousine; he'll walk down the steps of Airforce One at Stansted Airport and board his presidential helicopter for the short hop to the West End.
Inside the capital, police will co-ordinate the movement of these entourages and create a sterile environment at the Excel centre, base for the talks in East London's Canning Town.
The security arrangements at Excel are so rigorous that Newham Council is warning some residents will find it difficult to get into their own homes.
Three Docklands Light Railway stations will close, along with the roads nearest the centre. Pedestrian access will be severely limited and residents will need to carry two forms of identification.
Old faces
Police intelligence suggests the return of "some old faces" to the protest scene - although officers will not be drawn publicly on what that means.
G20 Meltdown poster
Police want "dialogue" with groups planning demonstrations
The level of activity on the net, and its style, suggests a re-emergence of groups which share the aims and tactics of some of the anti-globalisation protesters who turned to violence in 2000 and 2001.
While the Met has tried-and-tested tactics to deal with violence, its strategy for the street occupation promised by the Climate Camp is more difficult to call.
Scotland Yard will not be drawn on how it will respond if the camp turns into something significant, other than its commanders have "flexible plans".
It admits that its overall plans are being informed by the wealth of information now being posted online by the protest organisers.
This internet activity is also helping City firms decide how to prepare. Firms spoken to by the BBC were reluctant to go on the record about any of their specific plans.
Many have turned to private security consultants, who, in turn, are keeping a watchful eye on any specific threats that emerge online. At present, City of London Police are telling firms to cancel unnecessary meetings and deliveries, beef up building security and keep a low profile.
Unpredictable
Each year the Met deals with about 4,500 events requiring visible public order policing. They range from innocuous Boy Scout marches through to the recent angry scenes outside Israel's embassy.
The Genoa 2001 protests
Officials hope to avoid the violence of the 2001 G8 in Genoa
Police believe that if there is a big turn-out on Wednesday and Thursday, the vast majority of people will peacefully make their voices heard.
Past experience suggests unorthodox and imaginative street events can be inconvenient - but also benign.
The unknowable factor is the demonstrator bent on violence.
The police will be determined to avoid the internationally embarrassing scenes of the 2001 G8 in Genoa in which one protester was killed and hundreds more injured.
So with three days to go, the police say their message to protesters is clear.
"Come forward and make contact with us so we can make sure that your [legitimate] aims are achieved," says Commander O'Brien.
"But there are groups that by their very ethos won't talk to us. The groups which enter dialogue with us, we will facilitate [their events].
"We will not tolerate anyone breaking the law, be it by attacking buildings, people or our officers.
"We are looking to police peaceful protest. We don't talk in terms of riots. If anyone wants to come to London to engage in crime or disorder, they will be met with a swift and efficient policing response."
Police officers spend their professional lives trying to play down the public order implications of demonstrations - it's in their interests to keep things calm
But the enormous logistical challenges of providing the world's leaders with security, amid widespread expectation of substantial protests, has led the capital's top officers to issue exceptional warnings about this week's G20 meeting in London.
Last week, Commander Simon O'Brien, one of the senior officers involved in planning the events, said the capital was about to see an "almost unprecedented level of activity" with seven officially notified demonstrations - and potentially many more they don't know about.
It's little wonder that Scotland Yard is describing the G20 policing plan as one of the largest, most challenging and complicated public order operations it has ever devised.
If anyone wants to come to London to engage in crime or disorder, they will be met with a swift and efficient policing response
Commander Simon O'Brien
Metropolitan Police
Events begin on Monday with the three-day state visit to the UK by the President of Mexico.
At the same time, thousands of officials from the other G20 delegations will be arriving in London.
On Wednesday, large "direct action" events are predicted in the Square Mile (although by no means guaranteed) in the shape of the over-lapping "Fossil and Financial Fools Day" protests and the "G20 Meltdown".
At the same time the seemingly well-resourced Climate Camp group says its supporters will try to build a tent city in the middle of one of London's busiest roads to protest against the carbon trading market.
Meanwhile, a couple of miles away, the Stop the War coalition will march from the US Embassy to Trafalgar Square.
And then as evening approaches, there's the small matter of Wembley turning on the floodlights for England's World Cup qualifier against Ukraine.
As for Thursday, the day of the G20 itself, all police can honestly say at the moment is that the picture is "still emerging".
And did we mention that London is a city where there might be a few people trying to get to work and back?
So when officers describe this coming week as a "fluid and dynamic situation", that's something of an understatement.
Click here for a map of expected protests
The security strategy for all of this boils down to something that resembles a three-dimensional ever-changing puzzle. The Met needs to be prepared for a virtually unlimited number of scenarios.
Some 84,000 police man-hours have been allocated to the entirety of Operation Glencoe, the G20 security strategy. All police leave has been cancelled in London for Wednesday and Thursday.
OFFICIAL ADVICE TO CITY FIRMS
Cancel meetings
No entry without ID
Check ID outside buildings first
Minimise entry and exits
Review external smoking areas
Check CCTV equipment
Don't antagonise protesters
Source: City of London Police
Six police forces are part of the £7.5m security plan. The Metropolitan Police is naturally leading - but also calling in colleagues from the City of London and British Transport Police.
Outside of the M25 motorway, officers from Bedfordshire, Essex and Sussex will have critical roles in securing the arrival and transfer of delegations to their virtual bunkers in embassies and hotels.
Don't expect to see President Barack Obama waving from his bomb-proof limousine; he'll walk down the steps of Airforce One at Stansted Airport and board his presidential helicopter for the short hop to the West End.
Inside the capital, police will co-ordinate the movement of these entourages and create a sterile environment at the Excel centre, base for the talks in East London's Canning Town.
The security arrangements at Excel are so rigorous that Newham Council is warning some residents will find it difficult to get into their own homes.
Three Docklands Light Railway stations will close, along with the roads nearest the centre. Pedestrian access will be severely limited and residents will need to carry two forms of identification.
Old faces
Police intelligence suggests the return of "some old faces" to the protest scene - although officers will not be drawn publicly on what that means.
G20 Meltdown poster
Police want "dialogue" with groups planning demonstrations
The level of activity on the net, and its style, suggests a re-emergence of groups which share the aims and tactics of some of the anti-globalisation protesters who turned to violence in 2000 and 2001.
While the Met has tried-and-tested tactics to deal with violence, its strategy for the street occupation promised by the Climate Camp is more difficult to call.
Scotland Yard will not be drawn on how it will respond if the camp turns into something significant, other than its commanders have "flexible plans".
It admits that its overall plans are being informed by the wealth of information now being posted online by the protest organisers.
This internet activity is also helping City firms decide how to prepare. Firms spoken to by the BBC were reluctant to go on the record about any of their specific plans.
Many have turned to private security consultants, who, in turn, are keeping a watchful eye on any specific threats that emerge online. At present, City of London Police are telling firms to cancel unnecessary meetings and deliveries, beef up building security and keep a low profile.
Unpredictable
Each year the Met deals with about 4,500 events requiring visible public order policing. They range from innocuous Boy Scout marches through to the recent angry scenes outside Israel's embassy.
The Genoa 2001 protests
Officials hope to avoid the violence of the 2001 G8 in Genoa
Police believe that if there is a big turn-out on Wednesday and Thursday, the vast majority of people will peacefully make their voices heard.
Past experience suggests unorthodox and imaginative street events can be inconvenient - but also benign.
The unknowable factor is the demonstrator bent on violence.
The police will be determined to avoid the internationally embarrassing scenes of the 2001 G8 in Genoa in which one protester was killed and hundreds more injured.
So with three days to go, the police say their message to protesters is clear.
"Come forward and make contact with us so we can make sure that your [legitimate] aims are achieved," says Commander O'Brien.
"But there are groups that by their very ethos won't talk to us. The groups which enter dialogue with us, we will facilitate [their events].
"We will not tolerate anyone breaking the law, be it by attacking buildings, people or our officers.
"We are looking to police peaceful protest. We don't talk in terms of riots. If anyone wants to come to London to engage in crime or disorder, they will be met with a swift and efficient policing response."
A little background of what is happening here. It is the expectation of Dixie the black doxie girl, to get to lick my cereal bowl when I put it down. That is HER TREAT on those mornings. So here comes Bella, who puts her nose in the bowl, and Brother MacDuff assuming the guardian of the peace job, which was not required it seems. Dixie was a real lady about sharing with the baby.....this time at least. Not a growl was uttered, no hackles were raised, another day in the neighborhood.
I have watched Duffy ease Bella into our family by influencing the two doxie sisters to be gracious......maybe I am too much humanizing, but as a human I believe such an impulse is common to many mammals. Maybe with four dogs, the pack dynamic could set in, so I am watching Dolly, the younger doxie girl, who at 5 yrs old now is the Alpha female. She has her moments when she asserts her superior status over DIXIE, the older doxie girl in the picture above. Duffy is apparently not involved in this struggle. Dixie was the only female until Dolly came as a puppy, so there was no similar situation to deal with then. Dolly is a more nervous girl, and not as generous of spirit, being less secure for whatever reason. I see it in her, accept it as not changeable in her, and give her all the love I have. Stubborn little doxie, she is the epitome of THAT. And still is a good girl.
A westbound BNSF empty coal train accelerates west next to the small field at Washington Street where the new town hall is with a very interesting power set! The set in particular here is a duo of relatively fresh rebuilt NS AC44C6Ms with #4862 in the lead and #4812 second! This was quite the surprise hearing about this duo sitting at Western Avenue and I was eager for it to make it out onto the Racetrack in daylight! However it took almost the whole day for it to get a crew but a little bit before 4pm this guy was hauling through downtown DG in some pretty decent afternoon light!
Over the summer, NS had been sending fresh C6Ms west on the BNSF coal trains that come from Michigan and it was a neat change from all the faded units normally seen (still I will always enjoy an SD70ACE or two on these trains)! Unfortunately I hadn’t been able to capture any of these fresh units headed west due to them showing up out of nowhere up until this point so it was finally nice to get one in the lead!
Now this is where things get weird about these locomotives. First off, #4862 didn’t originally work for NS back when it was first built as a Dash 9. But rather, as BNSF C44-9W #4800 built in 1998 and later sold back to GE sometime in the early 2020s (and I guess you could say this guy was “on home rails” but for now let’s just say familiar territory lol)! NS has been buying up some ex BNSF Dash 9s cast away by the big orange railroad and having them rebuilt by Wabtec/GE at Erie, PA (this truly goes to show NS has caught a rebuild fever lol)! The other unit (4812) isn’t as shiny but is still relatively new this year and while searching around for its original road number, I realized I had seen it previously as a Dash 9! The original Dash 9 in particular was NS #9637 originally built in 2001 and painted in the classic thoroughbred paint scheme! And funny enough I do have my catch of 9637 uploaded on this site (first link below) so this sure turned out to be an interesting search indeed!
And to end off here is the full history of these units summarized in a smaller fashion:
NS AC44C6M #4862 (ex BNSF/GECX C44-9W #4800)
NS AC44C6M #4812 (ex NS C44-9W #9637)
Yeah not much of a history here for these two units lol. But as I type this “essay”, the CEFX AC4400CW units acquired by NS in 2023 have been getting rebuilt by Wabtec/GE in Fort Worth, TX and are already out for delivery! These are the first units NS has rebuilt that already have AC traction motors equipped and they will also be retaining their original NS 3900 series roadnumbers!
And as “promised” here is NS #9637 (now 4812) in action back in 2023! This was an interesting catch indeed due to it leading a leased WFRX (ex BNSF) SD70MAC!
And lastly I’d also like to credit where I got all this locomotive info from so here I present “NSDash9.com” which is a railfan site dedicated to spreading news and up to date listing on the Norfolk Southern locomotive roster (now I’m starting to wonder what that site will be renamed to once all the D9s are rebuilt lol)!
My fellow railfans, lined up in rapt expectation, to view the first photo runby of the day of P&W's fall foliage tour train.
Get out of flock and get your democracy in freedom! / Salid del rebaño y conseguid la democracia en libertad
‘Here lyeth in hope and expectation of that joyful day of the resurrection, when the Saviour of the whole World shall appear in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in him, to be pertakers of the everlasting blessedness of his eternal kingdom, Sir Wymond Carye of Snettesham in the county of Norfolk Kt. sometime of Thremhall Priory in Essex, first branch of that family of the Carys which is descended from Edmund Beanford, duke of Somerset, and so from John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, erected by his only brother, Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, master and treasurer of his majesties jewels and plate, and of Sir Henry Carye of C — in Bucks, son and heir of the said Sir Edward Carye joynt executor of the last will of Sir Wymond Carye, who lived about 75 years, & in peace and happiness and in the comfortable testimony of a good conscience and stedfast faith in Christ, died April 3, 1612.’
Lying on a huge monument flic.kr/p/tWipyH in the Emmanual chapel of the north transept which he had reduced c1597 along with the demolition of the chancel, is Sir Wymond Carye 1612.
Born in 1537, he was the eldest son of Vice Admiral Sir John Cary 1552 of Hunsdon & Cockington & Joyce daughter of Sir Edmund Denny of Cheshunt and 2nd wife Mary daughter and coheir of Robert Troutbeck of Bridge Trafford, Chester. Well connected, Joyce was the widow of William Walsingham and mother of Sir Francis Walsingham spymaster for Queen Elizabeth . She was also the sister of Anthony Denny, groom of the stool to Henry Vlll who m Joan Champernowne, cousin to Katherine Ashley née Champernowne, the governess of the future Queen Elizabeth
Through his father Wymond was the nephew of William Carey 1st husband of Mary Boleyn sister of Queen Anne Boleyn
Sir Wymond who was knighted at Whitehall in 1604, had rented the lordship of the manor from the Crown under Queen Elizabeth and James I, it was later acquired outright by his nephew Sir Henry Carye in 1614.
Aged at least 50, he m Catherine Jernegan coheiress daughter of John Jernegan of Somerleyton who was the widow of Henry Crane 1586 of Chilton, Suffolk with a son Robert Crane 1643 flic.kr/p/nD5wiM
Wymond & Catherine had no children
HOWEVER a Sir Wymond Carye styled " Lord Warden of ye Stanneries, Master of ye First Fruits Office, & Knight of ye Bath" fathered a child Jayne Davys who was the mother of Mary wife of Sir Gilbert Prynne 1627 of Chippenham flic.kr/p/61UL8F
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carey_(courtier) - Church of St. Mary Snettisham Norfolk
I mentioned this briefly but it is worth saying in more detail that while there is very little in the way of hype and blurb about Georgia, the Tsminda Sameba church does feature prominently in what little text there is. Somehow this expectation led to my seeing it for the first time being something of a let-down. The issue for me was that all the text and all the stories I had heard focused upon location, location, location. Look how high it is! Look how big the mountain is! Isn't it old! How did they get up there! And indeed, all of these aspects are impressive and in their own way remarkable. They just did not move me.
What I instead felt about the church, at first, was something I often feel when I am expecting to be amazed. This is a disconnect between expectation and reality that leaves me emotionally flat upon first exposure. There are a few exceptions to this ( the Empire State Building and Sagrada Familia being the most obvious) but on my travels I have managed to stand numb in front of the Niagara Falls, Sears Tower, Eiffel Tower, the Julian Alps, Lake Bled, Palma Cathedral, Yorkminster and, well, that list goes on for a while. Each time I arrive at these places my brain has already produced a preparatory slideshow of what it is about to see and sadly, my imagination is oft more proficient at pleasing me than reality. The sights, no matter how spectacular always end up being more grinding and prosaic than the floating castles and mile high waterfalls of my mind. Whether it is me feeling the sudden urge to urinate at Niagara or being overcome with a rabid urge to eat a banana while in Palma Cathedral, I always struggle to tap into what is edifying and beautiful about my surrounds. Instead I find myself more engaged with the life that goes on around these places rather than the sights themselves.
Sometimes I never get past this feeling and in fact it is this numbness amongst beauty that I believe has directed my travels to the likes of Bosnia, Georgia and Lebanon. Where there is no expectation of total synapse surrender to a sight so awesome that no man can comprehend, I feel freer to explore the nooks and crannies I come across, no matter how mundane. I guess I am interested in or at least more comfortable examining how everyday life ticks over in different scenarios and situations. Be it post siege Sarajevo, the tinderbox peace of Sour in southern Lebanon or the quiet ticking over of rural America.
Anyway, back to the church. The Tsminda Sameba suffered the same fate as some of the more globally renowned locations I have visited. What chance did a tiny church in a failing Georgian border town have when the combined might of the Eiffel tower and Yorkminster had left my socks resolutely unblown?
The first night I spent in Kazbegi consisted of me sitting on the veranda of my home stay looking up at the mountainside. Despite the intermittent power supply in the village, the Georgians had somehow managed to install a fully functioning floodlight system that gave the church a halogen halo. All around me the valley and my bedroom fell into a power free darkness.
That night, something of what that church must mean to the people of Kazbegi, and Georgia as a whole started to fall into place. Here I had the time, and to be fair a lack of any other distractions, to just take in what was around me. This was a village with little purpose, a way of life forgotten by most in the west and a future that held more opportunities for regression rather than progression. Yet up there on the hillside was the church. An edifice that existed long before the current population were born and one that would stand for centuries after they were gone. For lives where the strings of consistency and control are tied around the hands of politicians from either end of the Georgian Military Highway, the Tsminda Sameba was (and I sell it short here) a spiritual comfort blanket for many. This was not something I appreciated at first. I came expecting to be amazed at a physical, tangible sight where really I was there to experience the intangible essence of a unique place.
You know the saying "hindsight is 20/20"? Well, it's true. The signs are always there, we just need to be paying attention. - bit.ly/ExpectationBook
The magnificent Retablo da Expectación da Santa Virxe (Altar of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin) is a masterpiece of Galician Baroque art and one of the most outstanding artifacts in the cathedral. It is located in the Capela de San Pedro on the western side of the transept. It was created in 1722 by the master Antonio del Villar from Redondela.
The Virgin is represented pregnant, her hand resting over her womb. The statue of the Virgin dates back to around 1600. The ensemble is flanked by niches with hagiographic representations and medallions with scenes from the history of Salvation, constituting a visual delight for the senses full of historical and symbolic significance.
Here lyes in hope and expectation of the joyfull and disyred day of resurrection when the Saviour of the world shall appeare in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in Him, to be partakers of the everlasting happiness of the eternall kingdome, Sir Henry Sydney, knight, discended from the stemme of Viscount Lisle, Baron of Penshurst in Kent. Lorde Chamberleyn to the Queenes majestie and governoure of Flushing
His youth was seasoned with the feare of God, duty towards his parents and love to learning, his following aged yielded fruites of hospitality towards all the men of charitie, towards the poore, of faithfulness towards his friendes, and of peaceablenes amongst his neighbours. He and his end was concluded with piety, with patience and with a comfortable farewell at the tearme of 59 yeares, the 2d of November Anno Domini 1612
Here (joynd as well in ye safe hope of a joyfull resurrection as in all piety and conjugall love to the sayd Sir Henry Sidney) rests the body of Dame Jane his wife, daughter of Francis Jermy of Brightwell in Suffolk, esq, who after her peregrination of 73 yeares injoying 28 thereof in the happy society of her sayd husband and continuing his name and memory for 28 more (in a most chast and retired widowhood) upon the 9th of August 1638 departed this life . No lady lived more christiany nor dyed more happily, many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all (proverbs 31.29)
Henry was the son of Thomas Sydney 1585 & Barbara 1585 daughter of William Walsingham 1534 & Joyce Denny 1496 widow of John Carey & sister of Sir Francis Walsingham
He was the grandson of Agnes & Thomas Sydney 1544 who was employed by the townsmen to buy the priory lands for the town, but on paying £90 to the Crown, kept it for himself.
As the inscription says Henry was Lorde Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth & Governor of Flushing.
He succeeded his brother Thomas husband of Mary Southwell who died without issue.
He m 1581 Jane (aged 16) daughter of Francis Jermy of Brightwell & Margaret heiress of Thomas Tey of Brightwell & Stutton
Having no children, Henry left all his properties to Jane, and on her death they passed to Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester and thence to other families.
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Now lying under the west window, www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/69H6h6 their monument once lay in the Sidney chapel here, but was damaged by the fire of 1961 which also destroyed the jacobean font cover given by Jane www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/o9LW8J She also gave 4 acres of land to support the church minister "for ever"!
The broad arrow on his shield was the mark Henry used to identify the king's property when he took an army to fight the Spanish forces across the channel, has replaced his crest of a porcupine with collar and chain. - Church of St Mary & All Saints, Little Walsingham Norfolk
S e X y G i r l ..... like me
FEELING SEXY
Are you feeling sexual? Do you bound out of bed in the morning with energy and excitement for the day ahead? Is bound by the bed in the morning with energy and enthusiasm to this day forward? Does your body tingle with energy and your head buzz with anticipation? Is pricks Energy Authority with your head and Buzz with the expectation? Do you feel alive, really alive? Do you feel alive, really alive? Come on, you say, we can't possibly get up every day feeling that good. Come on, say, and we can not get every day that good feeling. Yes, I agree, everyone has natural cycles of feeling high and low. Yes, I agree, everyone has the natural cycles of feeling high and low. Feeling that good all the time would actually be really annoying, not only to ourselves but those around us. The feeling good all the time are actually really annoying, not only for ourselves but those around us. But you can tap into a natural source of energy and create a higher state of being into your everyday life. But you can take advantage of the natural source of energy and the establishment of the Supreme State, and being into your everyday life. Health is a relative term. Health is an advantage. For some it is not being ill. Some of it is not satisfactory. For others healthy is being in peak form especially for athletes. Health of others and being in peak form, especially for athletes. Most people exist in a state of sub health and don't even realise it. There are most people in the state of health and Sub not even aware. Their energy levels are low most of the time so this feels normal to them. Their energy levels low most of the time so this feels natural to them. Colds are a common occurrence and the joy of being able 'to sleep in' is their sluggish body slowing them down. The common cold is the joy of being able to 'sleep in' body is slow to slow them. Apart from the obvious unhealthy habits that slow us down, our libido also has an important part to play. Apart from the unhealthy habits is clear that the decline is slow for us, and we sexual instinct also play an important role. Sexual health is a major part of our overall health. Sexual health is a key part of our policy and public health. Our sexual energy and how we use that sexual energy affects us daily. We have a sexual energy and how to use sexual energy that affect us every day. The sexiness of our mind and how we feel about ourselves affects us. The sexual temptation from our minds and we see how it affects us from ourselves. How comfortable we feel in our own skin. How we feel comfortable in our skin. This all comes from within us and can not depend on another person affirming us. All of this comes from within and we can not depend on another person, Emphasizing us. Feeling sexy is not about asking your husband if your but looks good in this dress. Sexual feeling is not the question, but if your husband were beautiful in this dress. Feeling sexy comes from an energy inside. Sense of sexual energy comes from within. An inner source of satisfaction, a knowing that you are sexy because you feel sexy. Goff source of satisfaction, knowing that you feel you are sexually exciting. So where does this feeling sexy come from? Even where this feeling comes from sexual?
We all have sexual energy, we call it sex drive. We must all sexual energy, and call it sex drive. It is our natural hormones prompting us and reminding us that there is a natural act for us to do that is not only useful in recreating more life but also creating more life in ourselves. We have to pay the natural hormones and reminded us that there is a natural law for us to do that is to not only useful in creating more life, but also create more life in ourselves. From an early age we learn to repress and control this energy or drive. Since early age, we learn to repress energy and control this or drive. Talking about sex openly is not acceptable, and labelled unacceptable. Talk about sex publicly is unacceptable, and marking unacceptable. How do we know our sex life is healthy when we don't talk about it to find out, (except in the boys locker room with much bragging and joking.) And we know how to enjoy a healthy sex life when we do not talk about to find out (Except in the Treasury Conference boys much pride and Joking.)
In this age of increasing spiritual awareness, we are becoming more in touch with ourselves, spiritually and sexually. In this era of increasing spiritual awareness, and we are in touch with ourselves, spiritually and sexually. Anyone who states they are not very spiritual is just disconnected or unaware. Any person from the States it is not very spiritual knowledge or is simply disconnected. They have become distracted by the 'distractions of the modern world and disconnected with their true selves. It has become the disposal of 'dispersion of the contemporary world, disconnected with the real life. No one feels comfortable with their sexuality. No one feels comfortable with their sexuality. This is a side effect of the many thousands of years of social repression. This is one of the side effects of many thousands of years of social oppression. Many cultures almost outlaw it. Prohibiting many cultures ago. When you feel fantastic about yourself physically and mentally, you automatically feel fantastic sexually and this needs to be expressed. When you feel wonderful about yourself physically and mentally, I am automatically through sexual contact, fantastic, and this needs to be expressed. It is a part of your spirituality. It is a part of your spirituality. Sex is a connection to your spirituality. Sex is a spiritual relationship to your account. How fearful it is then that the church has labelled it as evil, as something that disconnects you from spirituality, but it is quite the opposite. How fearful are eight church might be described as a necessary evil, and that what separates you from spirituality, but quite the contrary.
Spiritual stimulation is everywhere. Spiritual revitalization everywhere. Spiritualism has become commercialised. Spirituality has become commercialised. The world is now offering us many ways to help us on our spiritual path. World now gives us many ways to help us and we are spiritual path. Unlike religion, there is no right or wrong way. Unlike religion, and there is no right or wrong. Whatever speaks to us, and works for us is right for us, and perhaps this too is constantly changing. Whatever was talking to us, and works for us is right for us, and perhaps this was also in flux. So what does sex have to do with spirituality you ask. What sex-related spirituality you wonder. If we listen to our church leaders, sex is only for those who are committed to each other through marriage, and if you are truly spiritual, then you wouldn't need it at all. If we listen to the leaders of the church, and sex is only for those committed to each other through marriage, and if you are truly spiritual, then you will not need it at all. This may be the truth for some, but it is their truth and no one else's. This might be the truth for some, but it is the truth no one else. It doesn't have to be yours unless you want it to be. It does not necessarily have to be you only if you want to be. We create our own truth. We establishment of a truth commission of our own. You can follow the truth of the yogis who find enlightenment through meditation. You can follow the truth of yogis to find enlightenment through meditation. But what is meditation? But what is meditation? Stilling the mind to open your subconscious to tap into the pool of consciousness. Soothing brains to open the Subconscious to benefit from a combination of awareness. You don't have to sit cross legged for hours to achieve this. Do not have a cross-legged sitting for long hours to achieve this. Meditation is different for everyone. Meditation is different for everyone. For some it may be finding a mosquito ridden creek in the middle of the mangroves and fishing for hours on end in solitude. For some it might be mosquitoes, which suffers from finding Creek in central mangroves and fishing for hours on end in isolation. For some it may be painting, or push bike riding. For some it may be painting, or the payment of riding a motorcycle. What ever stills the "drunken monkeys" in your head and takes you to a higher plane of being. What are snapshots than ever "in a state of intoxication and monkeys" in your mind and take you to a higher level of existence. Life itself is a meditation, not removing yourself form it. Life itself is the reflection, however, a form of removing yourself. Sex is a meditation. Sex is meditation. Making love is a meditation. Making love is meditation. It can be just a physical act of self pleasure and indulgence or it can take you to a higher state of being and bring healing and creative energy into physical form. This could be just the physical act of self-determination of pleasure and indulgence, or it could take you to the top of the state and are healing and creative energy in the form of material. Sex is sacred. Sex is sacred. Not only in the way the church teaches us but at a truly deeper level, beyond just honouring our partner and creating life. Not only in the way the church teaches us really, but at a deeper level, beyond simply honoring our partner, and the creation of life.
Sex is universal - everyone can participate even without a partner. Global sex - and everyone can participate even without a partner. What is not universal is belief systems and what is' right and wrong 'surrounding sexual conduct. What is non-existent in the belief systems and what is right and wrong 'surrounding sexual behaviour. "Your body is your greatest source of pleasure." I find sex the greatest way to physical pleasure. "Your body is the largest source of pleasure." I do not see sex as a means of greater physical pleasure. Some find exercise and pushing themselves to the limit, some find eating and drinking the greatest source of their physical pleasure. To find some exercise and to pay themselves to the limit, find some eating and drinking the largest source of physical pleasure. For me and many others, sex can be the most amount of fun you can have with your body. For me and many others, sex can be more fun than the amount You can have with your body. Here is where we get confused though. Here, although we get confused. We are taught that it is OK to see a display of violence and anger on our Televisions, but not OK to see a display of love and affection and physical expression of sex. We knew it OK to see introduced to the violence and anger and we are televisions, but not OK to see the presentation of love and affection and physical expression of gender. People being influenced by other perceptions of the right and wrong of this world, find other ways to find pleasure in their bodies. Other people affected by perceptions of right and wrong in this world, and find other ways to find comfort in their bodies. We turn to food, wine, sport, and deny ourselves the pure pleasure of sex. Turning to food, wine, sports, and deprive ourselves of pure sexual pleasure. We are taught that sex is for only people in love. We are aware that sex is only for people in love. Sex is pure fun and joy… is that so wrong? Sex pure fun and joy ... that this is wrong? For sure it can be misused in many ways, but so can everything. To make sure they can be misused in many ways, but so can everything. What a delicious way to recreate life. What a delicious way to restore life. It isn't compulsory to be with someone you love to have sex. It is not mandatory to be with someone you love sex. Sex is an expression of self love. Sex is an expression of self, love. Sex is an expression of the joy of life. Sex is an expression of joy of life. Life is for living and experiencing. Life to live and suffer. If you want to experience just sex without love…. This is not possible because simply being involved in the act of sex is an expression of self love. If you want to experience sex without love ... This is just not possible because the mere participation in an act of sex is an expression of self, love. Life is for experiencing and finding out what gives you joy. To witness life and what gives you joy. "You don't need to have a reason for anything, just be-cause. "I do not need to be a reason for anything, only to be - this issue. Just be the cause of your experience." (Neale Donald Walsh - Conversations with God) simply be the cause of your experience.
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模特兒：游一娟
攝影師：楊尊喆
彩妝師：洪明秀
整體造型：楊懿紋
Model: You,Yi-Juan
Photographer: Yang,Zun-Zhe
Visagiste: Hung, Ming-Xiu
Shape designer: Yang ,Yi-wen
Grumman P-50K Spitfire
a/c 47, 1st Expeditionary Squadron, 2nd Latin American Fighter Group, Venezuelan Air Force
Taegu, UN-occupied southern Korea, 27 February 1946
Personal mount of Captain Josef Martínez
Disbanded at San Angelo, Italy, in November 1944, the Venezuelan Air Force’s 1st Expeditionary Squadron was re-established at Majors Army Airfield, Texas, USA, on 26 March 1945. Having previously flown the Canadian-built Federal Aircraft A-36B version of the Mustang, there was a high expectation among the Venezuelan personnel that they would be issued new Mustangs. Arriving on busses, they saw Venezuelan-marked Spitfires across the airfield. Muttering followed and there was the hope expressed that these were just for training. Maybe, someone suggested, like their colleagues from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, they would soon be issued with P-47D Thunderbolts? Surely, they wouldn’t be flying Spitfires over Japan?
With time, they would learn how to fight with the Grumman P-50K Spitfire over Japan.
In April, the Venezuelan 1st Expeditionary Squadron would be joined by two other units. The men of the Columbian 101st Fighter Squadron arrived on the 9th and those of the Ecuadorean 21st Squadron on the 15th. Together, they would form the 2nd Latin American Fighter Group (2LAFG). After training at Major, the personnel of the 2LAFG were deployed to Clark Field, Philippines, where they picked up new P-50Ks and flew local combat missions during October. Here, they painted their Spitfires with high-visibility yellow, blue and red trims, to symbolise the colours shared by their national flags; only the red had to be minimised and the red centre of the Venezuelan national markings was replaced with white.
Built by Kaiser, the P-50K was the US equivalent to the UK-built Spitfire XVI. The type featured a bubble canopy, was powered by the V-1650-9 Packard Merlin, and were armed with either four 20mm Hispano cannon or two Hispano and two .50 cal Brownings (depending on the production block). With the RAF choosing to skip the P-50K for the Packard V-2240 Griffin powered P-50L (Spritire 35) and P-50N (Spitfire 36), the US Government offloaded the mass-produced P-50Ks onto other export customers.
Slower than the P-47D or P-51D, and shorter ranged too, the P-50K was passé by the time 2LAFG was formed. Realising that they were likely to be relegated to less glamorous ground attack duties, the 2LAFG focused on honing their air-to-surface combat skills. However, early training demonstrated that the P-50K was less accurate as a bombing platform than the A-36B the Venezuelans had previously flown. Fortunately, the type could be armed with six 5 inch HVAR, which in combat became the staple offensive loadout. To overcome the type’s range deficiency (compared to the P-47 and P-51), reusable 65 gal aluminium and single-use 90 gal plastic impregnated press paper drop tanks were carried on most combat sorties. Operating from Taegu on the Korean Peninsula, the external fuel tanks gave the P-50K sufficient combat radius with six HVARs to attack targets on Kyushu, Shikoku and most of Honshu. Critically, they could mount Watermelon cab-rank CAS missions in support of Operation Downfall, the Allied invasion of Honshu. Another loadout used was two 65 gal fuel tanks, six HVARs and a 65 gal napalm tank on the centreline. The 2LAFG left bombing with actual bombs to 1LAFG.
2LAFG joined 1LAFG at Taegu in November 1945 and participated in a range of operations. Code named mission types included Watermelons (providing cab-rank CAS), Strawberries (seek and destroy armed recce against targets of opportunity), Pumpkins (pre-planned strikes against fixed targets) and Shallots (as Pumpkins, but specifically against targets associated with ramp-launched, pulse-jet powered Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Model 43B Otsu). No 2LAFG pilots were credited with the destruction of Japanese aircraft in aerial combat until the invasion of Honshu. Tasked with Watermelons in support of Downfall’s Wakasa Bay landings, they inevitably encountered the kamikaze onslaught and shot down seven Japanese planes, including four Ki-115, two Ki-100 To-Gō and a Ki-61-II. By VJ Day, their air kill tally stood at just 11. Two of these kills were credited to Captain Josef Martínez: a Ki-115 on 1 March and another the next day.
The Spitfires flown at Major were of the P-50K-1-KA variety. At Clark, they were issued aircraft from the P-50-2-KA and P--50-3-KA blocks. The -1s and -2s were armed with a pair of 20mm Hispano cannon and two .50 cal Browning machine guns, while the -3s differed only from the -2s in having four cannon at the expense of the machine guns. However, as all P-50Ks were built with the “American Universal” wing, the Brownings could be replaced in service by a second pair of cannon. This appears to be the case with this aircraft, which is notable for having field produced aerodynamic sleeves for the inner pair of cannon (there having been a temporary shortage of genuine cannon sleeve parts when it was converted to an all cannon armament). Later photographs of this plane in Operation Downfall invasion stripes show standard, factory-supplied sleeves on all four cannon. Many of 2LAFG’s P-50-2-KA Spitfires had their machines guns replaced by cannons during December 1945 and January 1946.
During these winter months of reduced operations, all of the Group’s Spitfires also had their undercarriage modified to reduce tyre wear. In November, Taegu’s second runway was completed with a concrete surface, with the original runway being rebuilt in concrete during December and January. Using undercarriage and tyres designed for grass and dirt runways, the concrete runways produced excessive tyre wear on the Spitfires. The solution was to change the angle of the tyres relative to the undercarriage legs, which in turn required additional space in the wings when the undercarriage was retracted. To make room, a portion of the upper wing was cut open and faired over with a factory-supplied blister.
Captain Josef Martínez had flown 17 combat missions in the 1st Expeditionary Squadron’s A-36B Mustangs in Italy before rejoining the unit as it reformed on the P-50K. His P-50-1-KA Spitfire, a/c 47, is depicted here as photographed (with 30 mission markings) before his 31st Spitfire combat mission at Taegu on 27 February 1946. By VJ Day, 6 May 1946, he had flown 97 missions, 64 in a/c 47 (withdrawn after another Spitfire crashed into it whilst taxiing) and another 33 in a/c 87.
There had been an expectation that Bribie residents would not have to pay the toll, and eventually they did get a small concession. Books of tickets for multiple crossings could be purchased at a small discount and there was an exemption for Ambulance, Fire Brigade, Royal mail and Government vehicles.
14,000 cars crossed the bridge in the first week it was open, paying 7000 pounds to the two toll collectors, who were each on an annual salary of 5000 pounds. Many of the new visitors were very disappointed with inadequate parking facilities and amenities on the island, and may never have returned.
In the first two years of the new bridge over 300,000 cars crossed over, but population growth was much lower than anticipated reaching just 2000 by 1975 when the toll was lifted.
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Cleopatra’s needle,
London
patinated and gilded bronze
44″ h., 1879
joseph whitley
With the British Royal Navy’s victory over the French, in the 1798 Battle of the Nile, Egypt regained a measure of autonomy (and France’s aspirations to control of the Mediterranean and England’s colony, India, were dealt a blow).
The great victory raised the expectation of a great gift. (The commander of the British fleet, Lord Nelson, was famously dis-satisfied with his honors and more tangible rewards.) In 1819, Egypt presented Britain with the 69-foot tall, red Aswan granite obelisk, originally erected by Thutmose III at Heliopolis, in about 1450 BC. In 12 BC, Roman emperor Augustus ordered the obelisk (and its twin, which eventually found its way to New York’s Central Park) moved down the Nile to Alexandria.
It was only in 1877, nearly 60 years after the gift had been given, that England came to retrieve the 224 ton token. A harrowing sea journey ensured, lives were lost, the obelisk thought sunk to the bottom; but on September 12, 1878, Thutmose’s obelisk (unconnected, incidentally, in any way, with Cleopatra) was pivoted into place along London’s Thames Embankment.
Months earlier, a new, Egyptian Revival Style, bronze base had been fashioned to receive the great monument. This pedestal contains two 15” diameter earthenware cylinders in which are sealed two 12” diameter, earthenware jars – time capsules containing period mementos –
Standard foot and point, presented by the Standard Department of the Board of Trade; bronze model of the obelisk, ½ in. scale to the foot, cast and presented by Mr. Joseph Whitley, of Leeds; copies of Engineering printed on vellum, with plans of the various arrangements and details employing in erecting and transporting the obelisk, together with its complete history, presented by the proprietors of the publication; jars of Doulton ware, presented by Doulton & Co.; a piece of the obelisk stone; complete set of British coinage, including an Empress of India rupee; parchment copy of Dr. Birch’s translation of the obelisk hieroglyphics; standard gauge to 1000th part of an inch as sample of accurate workmanship; portrait of the Queen; Bibles in various languages, presented by the British and Foreign Bible Society; Bradshaw’s Railway Guide; Mappin’s shilling razor; case of cigars; pipes; box of hair pins and sundry articles of female adornment; Alexandra feeding-bottle and children’s toys, presented by a lady; a Tangye’s hydraulic jack as used in raising the obelisk; wire ropes and specimens of submarine cables; copies of the daily and illustrated papers; photographs of a dozen pretty Englishwomen, painted by Captain Henry Carter; a 2 foot rule; a London Directory, Whitaker’s Almanac.
United Methodist Church Free Magazine (1878)
This list’s second item – the model cast by Whitley – was one, it appears, of at least 16 cast by the Leeds based founder. According to Engineering (1879), “an exquisitely made model in bronze of the obelisk, encased for protective purposes in lead. This model is hollow, the opening in the bottom being closed with a screwed plug. In the model are placed drawings of the hieroglyphics and their translation, on vellum;…”
Other of these models were presented to various Societys, often by Whitley himself, including the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society in 1881, and Philosophical Society of Glasgow in 1884. The offered model was formerly in the collection of the National Arts Club in New York.
While all of these models are essentially identical, there are subtle variations. The bases of some models are unengraved, others are quite elaborate. Ours sports the monument’s name and scale, front and center in a fancy Gothic typeface, as well as less conspicuously recording its maker and date (1879). Inside the base, cast rather than engraved, is, again, the maker’s name, and “Leeds 1881”. What accounts for the differing dates inside and out? Perhaps the highly-publicized project to retrieve the Needle transpired more quickly than Whitley, at first, imagined.
That list of the inventory of the time capsules also mentions a “portrait of the Queen”. Unmentioned is the source of this portrait – Louis Aime Augustus Le Prince (1841 – vanished 1890). Whitley’s brother-in-law and, say many, the inventor of motion pictures. Intriguingly, Le Prince, a part owner of the Whitley firm after 1868, may have had some involvement in the production of the obelisk.
Additionally, we’ve located another model, less finished than the other – perhaps a part of the mold patterns – with which is a book – On the Antique Painting in Encaustic of Cleopatra – discovered in 1818 ‘A Forgotten Picture’ (1885) – inscribed to Le Prince by John Sartain (1808-1897) on September 20th, 1886. Sartain, a pioneer with mezzotint printing in the United States, would have met Le Prince during his visit there beginning in 1881. He returned to Leeds in 1887, shot the world’s first motion picture in 1888, in Whitley’s garden; then, famously, disappeared. On September 16, 1890, Le Prince boarded the Dijon-Paris train. The train arrived without him.
Sometimes something happens unusual and beyond expectation. And then beyond common senses emerges some ideas so unique of its own that it gives birth to an art one may call surrealism.
The overall composition was taken in a single shot, and then little bit editing was adopted to create effect without distorting the original composition. The whole composition came into being absolutely by chance while doing something not at all related to photography.
I do not know how you guys will like it, but it seemed to me a great fun...and if I tell you the story behind it you will simply laugh. I'm sure.
Grumman P-50K Spitfire
a/c 47, 1st Expeditionary Squadron, 2nd Latin American Fighter Group, Venezuelan Air Force
Taegu, UN-occupied southern Korea, 27 February 1946
Personal mount of Captain Josef Martínez
Disbanded at San Angelo, Italy, in November 1944, the Venezuelan Air Force’s 1st Expeditionary Squadron was re-established at Majors Army Airfield, Texas, USA, on 26 March 1945. Having previously flown the Canadian-built Federal Aircraft A-36B version of the Mustang, there was a high expectation among the Venezuelan personnel that they would be issued new Mustangs. Arriving on busses, they saw Venezuelan-marked Spitfires across the airfield. Muttering followed and there was the hope expressed that these were just for training. Maybe, someone suggested, like their colleagues from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, they would soon be issued with P-47D Thunderbolts? Surely, they wouldn’t be flying Spitfires over Japan?
With time, they would learn how to fight with the Grumman P-50K Spitfire over Japan.
In April, the Venezuelan 1st Expeditionary Squadron would be joined by two other units. The men of the Columbian 101st Fighter Squadron arrived on the 9th and those of the Ecuadorean 21st Squadron on the 15th. Together, they would form the 2nd Latin American Fighter Group (2LAFG). After training at Major, the personnel of the 2LAFG were deployed to Clark Field, Philippines, where they picked up new P-50Ks and flew local combat missions during October. Here, they painted their Spitfires with high-visibility yellow, blue and red trims, to symbolise the colours shared by their national flags; only the red had to be minimised and the red centre of the Venezuelan national markings was replaced with white.
Built by Kaiser, the P-50K was the US equivalent to the UK-built Spitfire XVI. The type featured a bubble canopy, was powered by the V-1650-9 Packard Merlin, and were armed with either four 20mm Hispano cannon or two Hispano and two .50 cal Brownings (depending on the production block). With the RAF choosing to skip the P-50K for the Packard V-2240 Griffin powered P-50L (Spritire 35) and P-50N (Spitfire 36), the US Government offloaded the mass-produced P-50Ks onto other export customers.
Slower than the P-47D or P-51D, and shorter ranged too, the P-50K was passé by the time 2LAFG was formed. Realising that they were likely to be relegated to less glamorous ground attack duties, the 2LAFG focused on honing their air-to-surface combat skills. However, early training demonstrated that the P-50K was less accurate as a bombing platform than the A-36B the Venezuelans had previously flown. Fortunately, the type could be armed with six 5 inch HVAR, which in combat became the staple offensive loadout. To overcome the type’s range deficiency (compared to the P-47 and P-51), reusable 65 gal aluminium and single-use 90 gal plastic impregnated press paper drop tanks were carried on most combat sorties. Operating from Taegu on the Korean Peninsula, the external fuel tanks gave the P-50K sufficient combat radius with six HVARs to attack targets on Kyushu, Shikoku and most of Honshu. Critically, they could mount Watermelon cab-rank CAS missions in support of Operation Downfall, the Allied invasion of Honshu. Another loadout used was two 65 gal fuel tanks, six HVARs and a 65 gal napalm tank on the centreline. The 2LAFG left bombing with actual bombs to 1LAFG.
2LAFG joined 1LAFG at Taegu in November 1945 and participated in a range of operations. Code named mission types included Watermelons (providing cab-rank CAS), Strawberries (seek and destroy armed recce against targets of opportunity), Pumpkins (pre-planned strikes against fixed targets) and Shallots (as Pumpkins, but specifically against targets associated with ramp-launched, pulse-jet powered Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka Model 43B Otsu). No 2LAFG pilots were credited with the destruction of Japanese aircraft in aerial combat until the invasion of Honshu. Tasked with Watermelons in support of Downfall’s Wakasa Bay landings, they inevitably encountered the kamikaze onslaught and shot down seven Japanese planes, including four Ki-115, two Ki-100 To-Gō and a Ki-61-II. By VJ Day, their air kill tally stood at just 11. Two of these kills were credited to Captain Josef Martínez: a Ki-115 on 1 March and another the next day.
The Spitfires flown at Major were of the P-50K-1-KA variety. At Clark, they were issued aircraft from the P-50-2-KA and P--50-3-KA blocks. The -1s and -2s were armed with a pair of 20mm Hispano cannon and two .50 cal Browning machine guns, while the -3s differed only from the -2s in having four cannon at the expense of the machine guns. However, as all P-50Ks were built with the “American Universal” wing, the Brownings could be replaced in service by a second pair of cannon. This appears to be the case with this aircraft, which is notable for having field produced aerodynamic sleeves for the inner pair of cannon (there having been a temporary shortage of genuine cannon sleeve parts when it was converted to an all cannon armament). Later photographs of this plane in Operation Downfall invasion stripes show standard, factory-supplied sleeves on all four cannon. Many of 2LAFG’s P-50-2-KA Spitfires had their machines guns replaced by cannons during December 1945 and January 1946.
During these winter months of reduced operations, all of the Group’s Spitfires also had their undercarriage modified to reduce tyre wear. In November, Taegu’s second runway was completed with a concrete surface, with the original runway being rebuilt in concrete during December and January. Using undercarriage and tyres designed for grass and dirt runways, the concrete runways produced excessive tyre wear on the Spitfires. The solution was to change the angle of the tyres relative to the undercarriage legs, which in turn required additional space in the wings when the undercarriage was retracted. To make room, a portion of the upper wing was cut open and faired over with a factory-supplied blister.
Captain Josef Martínez had flown 17 combat missions in the 1st Expeditionary Squadron’s A-36B Mustangs in Italy before rejoining the unit as it reformed on the P-50K. His P-50-1-KA Spitfire, a/c 47, is depicted here as photographed (with 30 mission markings) before his 31st Spitfire combat mission at Taegu on 27 February 1946. By VJ Day, 6 May 1946, he had flown 97 missions, 64 in a/c 47 (withdrawn after another Spitfire crashed into it whilst taxiing) and another 33 in a/c 87.
Expectation vs Reality - SpaceX Edition.
I had a blast prepping for this shot of SpaceX’s 100th Falcon 9 mission with Flight Club. My 10 minute exposure was dialed in thanks to the previous two scrubbed attempts, but the third try brought in the clouds. Bummer I didn’t get the star trails I wanted, but I learned a lot and will be back for more.