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Employees for John Deere Ag & Turf Division in Cary, N.C., donate more than 560 school backpacks for North Carolina National Guard Family Programs, Aug. 21, 2015. The employees of the military appreciation group lead by Gail Dawes, wife of NCNG Command Sgt. Maj. Christopher Dawes, carried, drug and tossed the packs in the back of a NCNG Medium Tactical Vehicle for transport to Guard HQ and later distribution to Guard families during upcoming drills. The employees continue a commitment began by the company in 2005 supporting various family programs events including Christmas meal donations. “It is important to walk the walk, it is everything to us,” said Denver Caldwell, manager of U.S. and Canada turf marketing. The bags will be stuffed with school supplies from previous donations from Wells Fargo, Operation Homefront and Dollar Tree. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan / Released)
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Hundreds turn out for Kaiserslautern Special Olympics
By Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern
KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany – Crowds of spectators cheered as MeeHee Ashe and fellow Special Olympics athletes sprinted down the 50-meter track during the annual games held in Enkenbach-Alsenborn.
For those 22 seconds, as she ran under sunny skies beside German and American athletes, Ashe, 27, felt happy, she said. Over the past few weeks, she has been training and preparing herself for the May 5 event – as she has done for more than two decades.
“I like to run,” Ashe said. “I forget about some things and just do it.”
The spring games, sponsored by U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, included tennis, track & field, badminton, soccer, basketball and volleyball. They have been held in Kaiserslautern Military Community for 28 years – the past 14 years at the German police academy, whose officers also supported the event. In all, more than 800 German and American athletes took part. They were supported by roughly 1,300 volunteers.
Lorelai Browning, 17, a Vilseck High School student carried the Olympic torch into the arena. Her parents, Sgt. 1st Class Henry Browning and his wife Lorenna, watched with pride.
“It’s such an honor for her.” Lorenna Browning said. “We’re so excited.”
Everyone who took part is a winner, said Lt. Col Kevin Hutchison, commander of U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern, during his opening remarks.
“These games are intended to help the athletes gain confidence and build a positive self-image that carries over into the classroom, home, job and community,” Hutchison said. “It also fosters friendships between volunteers and athletes and provides a forum for better understanding of adults and children with intellectual disabilities.”
Nearby, Spc. Brad Abraham, 20, of Turlock, Calif., handed 10-year-old Aaron Evans a bottle of water as the Ramstein Intermediate School student prepared for his sprint. Abraham was among hundreds of Kaiserslautern Soldiers and Airmen who volunteered to support the event.
“In the Army, helping people is part of what we do,” Abraham said. “It’s fun, when you get into it.”
Evans darted down the dusty track, flanked by other children who laughed and smiled as they crossed the finish line. Afterward, Abraham pinned a yellow ribbon to Evans’s blue Special Olympics t-shirt.
“I enjoy seeing kids enjoying this,” Abraham said. “If they’re having fun, then we’re having fun.”
The event marked the second year volunteering for Senior Airman James Carlisle, 29, and engineering assistant from Pascagoula, Miss., who serves with the 86th Civil Engineering Squadron at Ramstein Air Base. He served as a buddy for Dominik Keller, a seven-year-old Kaiserslautern athlete. Carlisle noticed that Keller and other young athletes were not so interested in “hearing all the talk in the beginning,” he said.
“They knew what they wanted when they got here. The first thing out of their mouth was ‘Fussball’ – they wanted to play soccer,” Carlisle said. “They look forward to this all year. It’s really exciting.”
Kids got plastic firefighters’ hats and clambered into U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern fire trucks on display. Nearby, participants made arts and crafts projects and hitched rides on a mini-train.
Garrison volunteers sweated over huge grills, barbequing hundreds of hot dogs and hamburgers.
The final sporting event was a friendly soccer match between German and American athletes. Germany won, 8-0. Then, crowds applauded as Command Sgt. Maj. Richard Jessup led fellow senior enlisted leaders from Kaiserslautern’s Army and Air Force units in the presentation of medallions to athletes.
Ashe climbed the pedestal and slightly bowed to receive her medal, to the cheers of her parents, Charlie and Nelda, plus hundreds of other people crowding the grandstands. Afterward, athletes, volunteers and spectators joined hands in a huge circle and sang “We Are The World.”
“It feels happy inside,” Ashe said. “It’s about winning and it’s not about losing. It’s about having fun.”
(Photos by Rick Scavetta, U.S. Army Garrison Kaiserslautern)
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Roma - Apertura del percorso del Tempio di Venere e Roma nel Foro romano. MIBAC (12/11/2010).
l Commissario delegato per le aree archeologiche di Roma e di Ostia antica Roberto Cecchi, secondo un programma concordato con la Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma, prosegue le operazioni finalizzate alla messa in sicurezza dei monumenti in custodia e all’ampliamento degli itinerari di visita offerti ai visitatori.
È questa la volta del tempio di Venere e Roma che si affaccia sulla valle del Colosseo dall’imponente basamento voluto dall’imperatore Adriano che dedicò l’edificio alla Città Eterna e alla dea Venere, madre di Enea suo fondatore. Costruito sulle pendici della Velia a partire dal 121 d.C., sottende una chiara valenza politica creando la sintesi tra Venere, cui è attribuita una dimensione cosmica, e Roma, rappresentata in forma divinizzata, ma anche la sintesi tra il passato e il futuro dell’Urbe, tra Oriente e Occidente, tra Aeternitas e Fortuna.
La storia
Il tempio, inaugurato nel 141 d.C. dal successore di Adriano, l’imperatore Antonino Pio, fu eretto nel luogo in cui sorgeva in precedenza il vestibolo della Domus Aurea, di cui si mantenne l’orientamento e si riutilizzarono in parte le fondazioni. Il tempio, di forme ellenizzanti, si innalzava al centro del grande podio artificiale: questo era affiancato sui lati lunghi da un doppio portico di colonne in granito grigio, su cui si aprivano al centro i due propilei, mentre sui lati corti era collegato con delle scalinate alla piazza del Colosseo e al Foro. Le colonne ancor oggi visibili furono rialzate durante i restauri degli anni trenta.
Il tempio vero e proprio si presentava come un diptero: all’interno due celle orientate in senso opposto, una per ciascuna divinità, e precedute da un vestibolo. Del peristilio di colonne corinzie non rimane nulla, e della cella verso il Colosseo – quella dedicata a Venere – resta solo l’abside. L’altra abside, invece, fu inglobata nell’ex convento di Santa Francesca Romana. Quanto è giunto sino ad oggi risale, però, in gran parte, al restauro voluto da Massenzio nel 307 d.C. in seguito all’incendio che distrusse tutta la parte centrale del Foro. A questo restauro si devono le celle absidali in laterizio con copertura a volte cassettonate, gli stucchi dei cassettoni (ricopiati anche dal Palladio), le colonne in porfido lungo le pareti e il pavimento in lastre marmoree.
L’abbandono dell’edificio e la seguente spoliazione delle strutture hanno inizio nel VII secolo, quando l’imperatore Eraclio concede a papa Onorio (625-638) le tegole di ottone della copertura del tetto per usarle a San Pietro.
I primi scavi sistematici dell’area vengono realizzati durante l’amministrazione francese della città, tra il 1810 e il 1817 e cominciano le demolizioni delle strutture medievali.
Il culto di Venere e Roma
Come testimonia un testo dello scrittore greco Ateneo (II-III secolo d.C.), la fondazione del culto di Venere e Roma e il voto del tempio alle due divinità da parte dell’imperatore Adriano (117-138 d.C.) avvengono in concomitanza con la riorganizzazione della festa dei Parilia: in base a una moneta l’evento può essere datato con precisione al 21 aprile del 121 d.C.. La costruzione del tempio (locatio) ha inizio subito dopo. Le Palilia o Parilia erano un’antichissima festa pastorale della religione romana che si celebrava il 21 aprile in onore del numen Pale. A partire dal 121 d.C. si iniziò a festeggiare nella stessa data anche il giorno della fondazione di Roma, ovvero la festività di Romaia.
Il progetto di sistemazione dell’area monumentale
All’intervento del Commissario delegato si devono la manutenzione straordinaria di tutta l’area del tempio e le sistemazioni funzionali per l’apertura al pubblico dell’area monumentale. Le risorse impegnate ammontano a 264.034,80 euro.
Negli anni ottanta del secolo scorso le due metà del tempio, rimaste a lungo divise l’una dall’altra, sono gestite da due diverse amministrazioni (il Comune di Roma amministrava la cella di Venere e il Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali quella di Roma). In seguito a un accordo, vengono riunificate nel complesso monumentale dell’area archeologica del Foro Romano-Palatino, ma di fatto i segni della separazione si rintracciano non solo nelle barriere di divisione, ma anche e soprattutto nella diversità delle funzioni. La cella di Roma fruita come quinta dell’Antiquario Forense, mentre quella di Venere resta un giardino urbano, anche se ormai chiuso alla città.
Le finalità che il nuovo progetto di sistemazione dell’area e di restauro delle strutture ha perseguito sono il superamento di queste differenze e la ricomposizione dei “segni” dell’architettura originaria, per rendere nuovamente palese l’antica grandiosità e restituire l’immagine unitaria del tempio. La nuova sistemazione dell’area ha operato un profondo cambiamento sia dell’immagine sia della funzione dello spazio del tempio rispetto a quelle realizzate nel 1935. Fino agli anni ottanta l’area era occupata da una strada, asfaltata, accessibile perfino alle auto, che conduceva al giardino: piazza di Venere e Roma. Oggi il tempio non è più una piazza urbana ed è tornato a far parte del contesto archeologico cui apparteneva e all’asfalto si è sostituito il manto erboso. Gli interventi, diffusi sulla quasi totalità delle strutture, hanno il solo scopo di ripristinare la continuità e l’omogeneità strutturale delle murature fratturate e lesionate, di contrastare i fenomeni di rotazione provocati dall’asportazione degli appoggi e di permettere il corretto scorrimento e smaltimento dell’acqua, principale responsabile del degrado. Le opere di restauro più impegnative hanno interessato le semicalotte delle absidi e le alte mura del lato sud. I monitoraggi indicavano infatti che la profonda lesione creatasi tra le semicalotte, sulla sommità, progrediva lenta ma inesorabile e che al tempo stesso le infiltrazioni d’acqua all’interno della lesione provocavano il degrado della decorazione in stucco. Il lato sud delle celle si conservava meglio degli altri – arriva a un’altezza di circa m 20 – ma i blocchi della fondazione, per gran parte asportati, avevano dato luogo a un fenomeno di rotazione che, data l’altezza, metteva a rischio la stabilità delle strutture. L’equilibrio era stato messo in crisi anche dal crollo delle scale che in antico occupavano la zona dell’incrocio delle absidi, e che costituivano un valido elemento di irrigidimento funzionale al sistema costruttivo. Il segno di sofferenza delle strutture era visibilmente denunciato dalle lesioni, profonde quanto diffuse, visibili sulle murature. Per il consolidamento è stato realizzato, alla base delle murature, un sistema continuo di contrafforti, collegati da solai armati, che si sostituisce alla fondazione mancante e dà nuovamente l’appoggio adeguato alle alte strutture murarie annullando la rotazione in atto. La parziale ricostruzione del muro perimetrale ha in questo caso una doppia funzione, sia statica sia d’immagine. Le murature delle absidi sono state consolidate con iniezioni di malta, spesso armate, che servono a ripristinare la continuità muraria interrotta dalle lesioni.
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And finally, we're on to day 3! We wake up today a bit west of Whitehorse on one of the most remote sections of the Alaska Highway, and also the section with the worst road quality (not a great mixture).
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From the Solemn Mass with the St. Cecilia choir to the glorious outdoor procession with the Blessed Sacrament in the parish gardens, the feast of Corpus Christi at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago is an important experience for parishioners and visitors.
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The Transformers: War for Cybertron has been fantastic at bringing back classic characters, giving them a glow up, and unleashing them upon the current generation as well as us old timers. It's especially great when it's a character that REALLY has been out of the spotlight for a while - such is the case of the Autobot Lieutenant Commander, Skylynx.
This figure retails for $119.99 CAD (or if you're Toys R Us, $129.99 CAD) and is a major pain in the ass to find at this time. Making it harder to find is the fact they seem to only be showing up at Toys R Us stores two units per irregular shipment, and Toys R Us stores seem to have 20 percent off sales every month.. so needless to say I'm quite happy my search actually paid off.
Skylynx has always been an interesting character and toy. As a character, if you asked an 80s kid to name the most irritating Transformer ever, there's a pretty good chance that Skylynx would be the answer. He's effectively a pompous know-it-all, and the best part of it is they (Sunbow) got an actor with a snooty English accent, which further cemented Skylynx's rep as a douche.
As a toy, Skylynx is one of those release that clearly wasn't designed by Hasbro or Takara because of wildly different it was. For those who are not in the know, Skylynx is technically a combiner, though not a Gestalt (which has five components). He's made up of two components - a Space Shuttle and a Carrier for any characters needing to hitch a ride. So rather than Transform into humanoid robots, the combined Skylynx transforms into what I would describe as a giant winged dinosaur.
Here's where things get weirder. The Shuttle can detach from the Carrier, and then each of these vehicles can turn into robotic animals. The Shuttle turns into a flying dinosaur bird thing and from what I can dig up and recall, is technically still Skylynx. The Carrier turns into a cat named Lynx, and is it's own character with a voice and everything, but he never says anything when they're combined.
The name Skylynx has been reused a handful of times through the years, but never really for a toy that operates as described above - even the Combiner Wars version was really just the combined Shuttle/Carrier form, so up until now the only "real" Skylynx was the G1 toy or the Encore reissue.
With that said, welcome to 2020.
Earthrise Skylynx is like classic Skylynx in that it is two vehicles with the aforementioned animal forms that combine together to form one large flying form. Contents include the Shuttle, the Carrier, two gun pods, and some fire blast/flame effect parts.
I have to say that for a mainline release of a figure that is probably never going to ever see a repaint or remould, Hasbro and Takara put a lot of love into making this. I actually own the Encore version, but need to dig it out for pictorial side-by-side stuff, so for now you'll have to take my word for this.
The Space Shuttle itself is about the same length as the original toy, but slimmer. Gone are the brilliant gold foil stickers and gold chromed parts, replaced with gold paint - a pity, but not the end of the world. Interesting to note is that this time, the Shuttle seems to be sponsored by NASA, even being given the name "Magnificent".
It's hard to make out, but the Shuttle is not pure while, but rather, there are areas of a light grey, which does cut the blandness of a pure white deco. Other than paint, you also get Autobot sigils on the wings. Mechanical detailing on the various panels of the Shuttle are beautiful, and I particularly love the re-entry heat shielding on the bottom of the vehicle mode. Plastic quality is at the higher quality as I expect from the Earthrise line as compared to the Cyberverse Arcee I popped open on the weekend.
Transformation into winged mode is pretty straight forward even if you've never played with this toys back in the day, with the only real trick is figuring out how to position the wings. The new wing design gives Skylynx greater breadth than before, and really works well in combined mode. The neck has been reworked so there's no Shuttle parts dangling from it, which results in a cleaner look. It's also longer than back in the day.
Speaking of the neck, this new neck has actual articulation, including a ball joint at the base of the head, and several ratcheting joints that allow for excellent posing.
The tail itself is much more articulated than back in the G1 days, but alas has lost much of it's presence as it's much, much thinner, though I can imagine this was done due to space limitations caused by the longer neck.
Perhaps the only one thing that was changed that I wish had stayed the same are the Shuttle's animal robot feet. The old legs were some what stiff due to significant fewer joints, but I seem to recall they held up the body much better than these scrawny new legs. I do appreciate the additional posing options, but I have to say I had a very hard to finding that position that allowed for display of the Shuttle Skylynx without it toppling over.
The Carrier generally resembles what it did back in the 80s... this kind of ambiguous box thing with tank treads. Transformation into Lynx is straight forward, again, even if you've never played with the original toy. Gone is the chrome as well as the motorized walking function.
Having said that, the redesign of Lynx is glorious, significantly improving the ability for this component to pose by having multi jointed legs, which include much needed ankle pivots and heel joints, along with functional needs. I also love how designers gave the front legs extra joints to make Lynx (and combined mode) broader at the front. As with the Shuttle, there's a mind boggling number of panel lines and other mechanical details.
Colours are significantly darker than the G1 vewrsion, but I'm pretty sure there's actually more paint on this version of Lynx than the G1 version, including actual paint on the tank treads
Combination of the two parts is as simple as ever, really two points (front and back) with a release lever at the front. Combined mode looks great due to its large size, as well as being cleaner as the front end of the Carrier and point where the neck comes out of the Shuttle actually line up, which was somewhat of a sore point on the original toy.
Lastly, due to its size, Earthrise Skylynx has a base mode to interlink with other figures, forming little communities or whatnot. Unlike other Leader class figures that have "base modes" because someone said so, the mode for Skylynx isn't as bad. Sure, it's still somewhat of random limb display, but the gun pods help and, more importantly, it's really just Lynx that turns into a base - Skylynx the Shuttle is left unaltered, causing the base to be more of a launching pad for the Shuttle than some generic outpost.
So in conclusion, a very worthy successor to the Skylynx name, and a fantastic improvement on the original toy while keeping the aspects of that original toy that made it fun. Base mode is harmless, and to me, is more fun than the other ones I've seen. If you know anything about Skylynx and like the character, this is one upgrade you don't want to miss.
I am pleased to announce you the creation of a new project for Tina who wanted something around a tutu dress set... So I plan to make a real pancake tutu with a gradient in different tulle overlays, inspired by the romantic ballet, where the spirit of Giselle, dancing with her lover, comes to save him from the death.
This set include seven pieces...
- A blouse, fully lined, sewn in a cotton batiste dyed with bright pink color, edged with lace on the bottom sleeves and with pale pink rayon cord around de neckline. Embroidered roses adorn this piece witch closes in the back with beads and loops.
- A pancake tutu sewn with a gradient in different tulle overlays: gold at the top, on dotted cream, on pale pink, and ending below with mauve pink. I used the traditional technique, that is to say, with lots of layers fixed together and with a metal circle inside to maintain a certain rigidity.
- A corseted over-skirt sew in a lovely yellow-cream jacquard silk satin, fully embroidered and edged with lace and burgundy rayon cord. A fake lacing, a knotted rose on the front panel and a real lacing on the back...
- A cream pantyhose, hand painted with acrylic painting, decorated with tiny flowers and leaves rising from the ankle to the knee.
- A short cape, sewn with lace on satin with tiny embroidered roses, edged with fur and closed with a cordon ended with small pompoms. Because I couldn't make up my mind about the color, I I decide to make it reversible: pink or green depending on the mood of the day.
- Hair accessory: some millinery flowers... mounted on hair clips.
- A pair of ballerina shoes.
This set is worn by my "Nijinska" blythe doll customized by me.
I used a real factory Blythe that looks like Matryoshka Maiden and bought especially to become this ballet girl, tribute to Nijinski.
Work done:
· Carving of her nose, lips and philtrum
· New full makeup made with artist Extra Soft Pastels "à l'écu" from Sennelier and sealed with several layers of MSC
· Sleepy eyes
· Gaze corrected
· New lashes
· Eyelids painted with artist Extra Soft Pastels "à l'écu" from Sennelier
· Four new pairs of eye chips hand painted by me using professional Golden iridescent fluid acrylics. Baby pink (right), Pale lavender (center), Royal blue (left), Olive green (center)
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Working in the Transport industry it was good to see a lot of support for young children that have to live with disabilities and other problems. The Novita Convoy for kids is an Annual event where truck drivers band together and pick up young people with disabilities and take them for a once in a life ride in a big rig (Truck) on a circuit around the suburbs of Adelaide. This year i had a few friends participating in the event so i decided to go along and take a few photos.
This photo is of a Western Star truck
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