The Royal Navy was fairly late to the heavy cruiser, mostly due to limited funding until the Naval Act of 1936. The plus side of this is that they were never a signatory of the Eiswald Naval Treaty (a fact which they would exploit brutally), the downside being that they had a lot of catching up to do. After months of consulting naval analysts and taking notes on foreign designs, with many more devoted to a uniquely painstaking design process, the Odyssey class was cleared for construction in 1937, with the first, Achilles, (pictured here) being launched in early 1940. Following the Royal Navy's principles of gunnery and ruggedness before anything else, the Odysseys (like most succeeding Royal Navy cruisers) lacked the torpedoes that made many foreign equivalents powerful strike vessels. This was due in part to a design prioritizing fleet defense before offensive capabilities, but mostly because Nenya's torpedoes of this time were notoriously short ranged, and it simply wasn't worth installing them on a ship the size of an Odyssey. And boy were they big. At 219 meters long and 24 meters wide, they were among the largest cruisers in the world. Although initially designed with twelve eight inch guns in four triple turrets (to counter the plethora of heavily armed cruisers present in other nations), this design was scrapped in favour of a stern seaplane facility, complete with a heavy-lift crane with space and stores to operate four scout aircraft. The tonnage saved by the nerfing of the artillery allowed for a little more speed, while the spare weight was awarded to the massive anti-aircraft complex. Built around a series of the Navy's new Tachynometric Fire Computers, the AA suite consisted of twelve 5in guns, nineteen 40mm guns on raised pedestals (of which 16 were aided by the Tacky Computers) and twenty 20mm guns spread around the deck. In fact, preliminary designs utilizing the Papillon method of quad turrets could have allowed for a staggering forty to sixty 40mm cannons, but this was brought down to be kinder on weight and ammunition storage, as such an extreme measure was not deemed necessary, even for a ship intended to be a floating AA battery (The current year is also 1940, not 1945). Despite being so heavily armed and armoured, with the additional weight of a lot of fancy mechanisms, the Odysseys actually met their weight quotas just as planned, thus avoiding the seakeeping issues that seem to plague many other large cruiser designs, and are surprisingly maneuverable despite their size (the secret is to set out with a plan for a 14,000 ton cruiser from the start, and not change your mind along the way). Although they lack the punching power and night-fighting capabilities of torpedo-armed ships, their combination of firepower, armour and survivability mean that they should be able to hold their own in a gunfight against anything short of a capital ship. Combined with perhaps the most powerful AA setup of any cruiser class, they are indispensable defensive assets to any fleet. Of course, it's not exactly clear how many of them will see service, as they aren't cheap ships, and the nation which they serve isn't exactly rich.

 

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At 219 studs, or five foot seven, this is the largest and grandest LDD model I have built to date. It started life as a Cleveland-style light cruiser, which was to be followed up by a Baltimore modification, but I decided to go heavy cruiser first due to the nice big 8in turrets I made, and how well they fit the deck. Also the whole thing about twelve main guns was just text flavour, I wouldn't have been able to fit that many turrets on. Although said deck and hull were complicated, and took a while to finish, the hardest part for me was the superstructure. There was just so much space to fill! And aiming for quality, I couldn't just fill all that space with junk. I was aiming for a Baltimore or Cleveland sort of look, but decided to go with the Des Moines (although I didn't realize the schematic I was copying was Des Moines until it was practically finished) with extra gun directors, smaller structure, one less midships AA mount a side and a single funnel. Although even more afield of the groups' date than the original Baltimore plan, it was the only structure I could make fit. Furthermore, finding an AA setup that both looked good and kept to Divide and Conquer VII's time frame was a challenge, but I'm fairly happy with the dual 40mm mounts.

 

Credit to Backward Matt for the hull and deck technique, to Awesome O'Saurus for inspiration on the variety of weapons designs and to Ian, because I definitely I used some of his techniques (the anchor, spotlights and single 40mm guns to name a few). I have tagged all three.

 

Also, thanks to Lego Pilot for the render! I swear I'll have my own POVray working soon.

 

I'm probably gonna take a short brake from ships this size, after which I'll (probably) make the light cruiser and light carrier modifications off this hull. Then I'll move onto an even larger ship, projected to be 250-270 studs (6.5-7 feet, god help me with this scale).

An aerial photo shows a small section of the atoll that has slipped beneath the water line only showing a small pile of rocks at low tide on Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Nov. 8, 2015. For decades, the tiny Marshall Islands has been a stalwart American ally. Its location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has made it a key strategic outpost for the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

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AP NEWS

 

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — For decades, the tiny Marshall Islands has been a stalwart American ally. Its location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has made it a key strategic outpost for the U.S. military.

 

But that loyalty is being tested amid a dispute with Washington over the terms of its “Compact of Free Association” agreement, which expires soon. The U.S. is refusing to engage the Marshallese on claims for environmental and health damage caused by dozens of nuclear tests it carried out in the 1940s and ’50s, including a huge thermonuclear blast on Bikini Atoll.

 

The dispute has some U.S. lawmakers worried that China might be willing to step into the breach, adding to a bruising competition for geopolitical dominance between the two superpowers.

 

Since World War II, the U.S. has treated the Marshall Islands, along with Micronesia and Palau, much like territories. On the Marshall Islands, the U.S. has developed military, intelligence and aerospace facilities in a region where China is particularly active.

 

In turn, U.S. money and jobs have benefited the Marshall Islands’ economy. And many Marshallese have taken advantage of their ability to live and work in the U.S., moving in the thousands to Arkansas, Hawaii and Oklahoma.

 

But this month, 10 Democratic and Republican members of the House of Representatives wrote to President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, about the U.S. compact talks with the Marshalls, Micronesia and Palau.

 

“It is distressing that these negotiations do not appear to be a priority — there have been no formal meetings since this Administration began — even as our international focus continues shifting to the Indo-Pacific,” they wrote.

 

The lawmakers said the delays were putting the U.S. in a weaker position, and “China is all too ready to step in and provide the desperately needed infrastructure and climate resiliency investment that is sought by these long-time partners.”

 

China’s Foreign Ministry said the U.S. should face up to its responsibility to restore the environmental damage it caused with its nuclear tests. It said China was willing to engage with the Marshall Islands and other Pacific island nations on the basis of mutual respect and cooperation under the “One China Principle,” in which Taiwan is viewed as part of China.

 

“We welcome efforts to boost economic relations and improve the quality of life between the sides,” the ministry said in a statement.

 

China has steadily poached allies from Taiwan in the Pacific, including Kiribati and the Solomon Islands in 2019. Just this week, angry protesters in the Solomons set fire to buildings and looted stores in unrest that some have linked to the China switch.

 

James Matayoshi, the mayor of Rongelap Atoll on the Marshall Islands, said he and hundreds of others have remained displaced from their atoll since the nuclear tests and want to see it revitalized. He said officials have been talking with potential investors from Asia, after a previous proposal by a Chinese-Marshallese businessman fell through.

 

“It would be a business transaction. We don’t advocate for war or any superpower influence,” Matayoshi said. “But we want to be able to live in our backyard, and enjoy life here.”

 

Like many others on the Marshall Islands, Matayoshi believes a U.S. settlement of $150 million agreed to in the 1980s fell well short of addressing the nuclear legacy. He said his late mother was pregnant at the time of one massive nuclear blast and got exposed to radiation that was the equivalent of 25,000 X-rays before giving birth to a stillborn baby.

 

But the U.S. position has remained static for more than 20 years, the last time the compact came up for renegotiation. The U.S. maintains that nuclear compensation was dealt with in a “full and final settlement” and cannot be reopened.

 

Marshallese Senator David Paul — who is on the islands’ negotiating committee and also represents Kwajalein Atoll, which is home to a major U.S. military base — said continuing high cancer rates and the displacement of people remain huge issues.

 

“Everyone knows the negotiations at that time were not fair or equitable,” Paul said. “When you look at the total cost of property damage and the ongoing health issues to date, it’s a drop in the bucket. It’s an insult.”

 

Various estimates put the true cost of the damage at about $3 billion, including for repairs to a massive nuclear waste facility known as the Cactus Dome which environmentalists say is leaking toxic waste into the ocean.

 

A report to Congress last year from the U.S. Department of Energy said the dome contains over 100,000 cubic yards (76,000 cubic meters) of radioactively contaminated soil and debris but the structure wasn’t in any immediate danger of failing. The report concluded that any contaminated groundwater flowing beneath the structure was not measurably impacting the environment.

 

As it did in earlier compact negotiations, the U.S. has stonewalled discussions on the nuclear legacy, something that American officials acknowledge.

 

“We know that’s important, but there is a full and final settlement, and both sides agreed to it,” said a senior U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity. “So, that issue is just not subject to being reopened. But, we’re still quite willing to work with the (Marshallese) on the broader issues that are important to us and that’s what we hope to do.”

 

The U.S. State Department said the Indo-Pacific is central to U.S. foreign policy.

 

“We are prioritizing achieving success in the negotiations related to the Compacts with the Freely Associated States as a regional foreign policy objective,” the department said.

 

The frustrations of the Marshallese were apparent in a letter sent last month by Foreign Minister Casten Nemra to Rep. Katie Porter, a California Democrat who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee’s oversight and investigations panel.

 

“The State and Interior Department officials involved have been unwilling to discuss an agenda for the talks and tried to confine the discussion to their own limited proposals,” Nemra wrote. “The nuclear issue clearly was one reason. All issues raised by the Marshall Islands were met with assertions that they did not have authority to discuss the matters without any indication that they would seek it.”

 

Sen. Paul said the American approach needs to change.

 

“I believe the U.S. has the legal and moral obligation to make sure they clean up this debris,” Paul said. “We want to make sure we get a better deal this time around. As they say, the third time is a charm.”

California has been hit hard the past few weeks with storms. Storms bring lightning and lightning strikes cause wildfires. Currently there are at least five fire complexes in the area including River, Fork, South, Route and Mad River.

 

The Mad River complex is a series of seven lightning fires that started on July 30th, 2015 after a lightning storm moved through Northern California. After initial firefighters responded, 25 fires were reported and most of the fires were contained. Some additional fires might be detected from the original lightning storms in the upcoming days and will be attacked once they are found. Damage assessment is ongoing and crews will determine the extent of structures and equipment damaged or destroyed.

The River Complex is managing a total of 5 fires due to fires merging together on the Shasta-Trinity and the Six Rivers National Forests. Winds from the west are expected to lift the inversion today resulting in active fire behavior.

 

The Fork Complex consists of over 40 fires, all of which were ignited by lightning between July 29 and 31, 2015. These fires are still being identified, assessed, and prioritized. Updated acreage and information about specific fires will be published as it is known. Fire activity moderated throughout last night (8/4) with the smoke inversion layer remaining in place today. Hopefully this will create favorable conditions for fire crews to take direct fire attack on the fires edge, construct dozer line and scout for best firefighting locations on all fires in the complex.

 

The South Complex consists of approximately nine known fires, five of which are currently over 100 acres. The fires are active and defense of structures and point protection are in progress. The weather is trapping smoke in the valley causing very poor air quality. As the smoke lifts the fire activity increases.

Firefighters will continue to provide point protection on structures and to look for opportunities to build direct and indirect containment lines.

 

The Route Complex currently stands at 12,164 acres from seven separate fires and is at 2% containment. The overall acreage has been reduced because the South Fire on the nearby South Complex is merging with the Johnson Fire in the Route Complex resulting in decreased and revised fire perimeter acreage.

 

This natural-color satellite image collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite shows smoke rising and drifting northwest from the various fire complexes. It was captured on August 04, 2015. Actively burning areas, detected by MODIS’s thermal bands, are outlined in red.

 

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A legacy of its military origins, the load-lifter's cockpit is cramped due a design that prioritized pilot survivability above all else.

"To be truly transformative, the post-2015 development agenda must prioritize gender equality and women’s empowerment. The world will never realize 100 per cent of its goals if 50 per cent of its people cannot realize their full potential."

 

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on International Women's Day

 

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My first visit to MRL in 2015 I remembered seeing a flame cut whistle post on the mainline somewhere east of Garrison. We (Welch and I) had places to be seeing as we were racing towards Helena to get the local with an SD45 leader and I didn't remember seeing another one. I didn't prioritize it but I didn't forget it. So, since my experience on MRL's branch lines was nonexistent until this spring I had assumed that was a one-off. Imagine my surprise as I arrived at Sappington and saw this beauty!

Sorry to be posting this pretty late in the month I was going to do it earlier but I've been pretty prioritized with school. Anyways let's get to the figs...

 

From L-R:

 

Solomon Grundy (Updated): Cyrus Gold (Solomon Grundy), is a Zombie supervillain who has clashed with many heroes over the years, including Green Lantern, Superman, Batman, the Justice Society of America, and the Justice League of America. Solomon Grundy frequently dies and resurrects in new incarnations, each of varying levels of strength and intelligence. Although primarily evil, some of his incarnations have shown the capacity for heroism.

 

Fig Formula: Hair (70162: Solomon Blaze), Head (71031: Zombie Captain America), Torso (71028: Griphook), Arms (70903: Batman), Hands (41255: Guy Diamond), Hip & Legs (71031: Monica Rambeau)

 

John Constantine (Updated): John Constantine is an occult detective from Liverpool, England. His violent and anti-social attitude makes him a formidable anti-hero, and he's known for doing whatever it takes to get the job done.

 

Fig Formula: Hair (76143: Captain America), Head (71018: Roman Gladiator), Torso & Arms (71031: Loki), Hands (71018: Yuppie), Hip & Legs (71031: Loki)

 

Design Inspirations Below:

 

Solomon Grundy - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/swampthing/images/5/5d/Solomon_...)

 

John Constantine - (static.wikia.nocookie.net/hellblazer/images/0/0d/013013_c...)

 

John Constantine is inspired by Steel Brick Customs design. Comment & fave below to let me know what you all think.

"Treasury Plan for Puerto Rico Prioritizes Pensions Over Bondholders" by MARY WILLIAMS WALSH via NYT t.co/X5343JM9NN (via Twitter twitter.com/felipemassone/status/702671864641032192)

The Days We Wear Masks 20210226

 

People age 60 and older and health care workers among some 2.4 million people currently prioritized to receive the vaccines can make their appointments online to get the jab at one of the eight community vaccination centers or 18 outpatient clinics across Hong Kong.

 

(20210226 The Standard)

We will never forget him or the thousands of others murdered in Egypt for their passion for freedom and Justice.

 

On 2 February 2018, about fifty people gathered outside the Egyptian Embassy in London for a vigil to mark the second anniversary of the discovery of the horrificly mutilated corpse of Cambridge university student, Giulio Regeni, at the edge of the Cairo-Alexandria desert road in Egypt.

 

Within hours of the discovery of his body, his family knew that he must have been the victim of the most appalling sustained violence. His corpse was so terribly disfigured that his mother explained he was virtually unrecognisable. She could only identiy him from the tip of his nose.

 

But what was equally striking was the location where the body had been dumped, on one of Egypt's busiest highways close to the watchtowers of a security services base.

 

On 25th January 2016, the fifth anniversary of Egypt's 2011 uprising, a thirty year old Italian national Giulio Regeni disappeared from the streets of Cairo.

 

He was a student of one of Britain's most prestigious universities - Cambridge and was researching the crucial role of trade unions in relation to Egyptian political power and workers' rights.

 

During his research he managed to cultivate contacts with numerous key individuals within several Independent trade unions which the Egyptian government planned to make illegal. He often expressed fear to his friends that he might be detained by Egyptian authorities.

 

It was not until 3 February 2016, nine days after his disappearance, that Regeni's half-naked and battered corpse was found dumped by the roadside. His mother remarked that Giulio's disfigured face carried "all the evils of the world."

 

A senior Egyptian police official, who it was later discovered had a prior criminal record for both torture and murder, announced that Regeni had been the victim of a road traffic accident.

 

However an Italian autopsy indicated that he had been tortured to death over a period of approximately one week and had suffered over 24 bone fractures, multiple stab wounds, numerous cigarette burns and sharp razor cuts and that all his finger and toe nails had been yanked out.

 

On 21 April a Reuters correspondent reported that he had received confirmation of Regeni's arrest and detention by Egyptian security services in January from no fewer than six sources in Egypt's police and intelligence services but Egypt's Interior Minister angrily denied the report as having "no basis in truth."

 

The Regeni case is not an isolated incident - every month dozens of Egyptians, from among those who either dare to criticize the government or dare in anyway not to conform, are forcibly disappeared from their homes or from the streets and many of them either die in detention or eventually appear months later in court charged with offences, such as protesting without a license or spreading false information against the state.

 

Recent estimates put the number of political detainees in Egypt's prisons at approximately 60,000.

 

The Italian government have been infuriated by the lack of any honest attempt by the Egyptian authorities to discover and punish those responsible for Regeni's murder. Although some Italians have been disappointed by the very limited scale of Italian diplomatic and economic reprisals - they have at least gone further than the British government - withdrawing their ambassador in April 2016 for consultations and on 30 June the Italian senate voted to halt aviation supplies for Egyptian military aircraft including F-16s.

 

Meanwhile the British government has done virtually nothing - except issue a brief statement after it was embarrassed into action by an online parliamentary petition - prior to which I'm unaware of any statement on the issue by British diplomats who appear to wish to prioritize profit and trade over human rights.

 

More information about the Regeni case and the human rights crisis in Egypt can be found from

 

The Egypt Solidarity Initiative at

 

egyptsolidarityinitiative.org/

 

and also on Facebook or from Amnesty International at

 

www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/press-release-me-let-me-go/truth...

 

Update April 2020 -. If anyone is interested in the forgotten history of British imperialism and how it impacted the lives of millions of people around the world including Egypt from the 1700s until today - I've posted over 600 short articles on the following website. roguenation.org/ including the following page where you can select from over 600 pages according to country - roguenation.org/choose-by-country

“One of Webb’s most complex instrument modes is with the MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS). The MRS is an integral-field spectrograph, which provides spectral and spatial information simultaneously for the entire field of view. The spectrograph provides three-dimensional ‘data cubes’ in which every pixel in an image contains a unique spectrum. Such spectrographs are extremely powerful tools to study the composition and kinematics of astronomical objects, as they combine the benefits of both traditional imaging and spectroscopy.

 

“The MRS is designed to have a spectral resolving power (observed wavelength divided by the smallest detectable wavelength difference) of about 3,000. That is high enough to resolve key atomic and molecular features in a variety of environments. At the highest redshifts, the MRS will be able to study hydrogen emission from the first galaxies. At lower redshifts, it will probe molecular hydrocarbon features in dusty nearby galaxies and detect the bright spectral fingerprints of elements such as oxygen, argon, and neon that can tell us about the properties of ionized gas in the interstellar medium. Closer to home, the MRS will produce maps of spectral features due to water ice and simple organic molecules in giant planets in our own solar system and in planet-forming disks around other stars.

 

“In order to cover the wide 5 to 28 micron wavelength range as efficiently as possible, the MRS integral field units are broken up into twelve individual wavelength bands, each of which must be calibrated individually. Over the past few weeks, the MIRI team (a large international group of astronomers from the USA and Europe) has been focusing primarily on calibrating the imaging components of the MRS. They want to ensure that all twelve bands are spatially well aligned with each other and with the MIRI Imager, so that it can be used to place targets accurately into the smaller MRS field of view. We show some early test results from this alignment process, illustrating the image quality achieved in each of the twelve bands using observations of the bright K giant star HD 37122 (located in the southern sky near the Large Magellanic Cloud).

 

“Once the spatial alignment and image quality of the several bands are well characterized, the MIRI team will prioritize calibrating the spectroscopic response of the instrument. This step will include determining the wavelength solution and spectral resolution throughout each of the twelve fields of view using observations of compact emission-line objects and diffuse planetary nebulae ejected by dying stars. We show the exceptional spectral resolving power of the MRS with a small segment of a spectrum obtained from recent engineering observations of the active galactic nucleus at the core of Seyfert galaxy NGC 6552. Once these basic instrument characteristics are established, it will be possible to calibrate MRS so that it is ready to support the wealth of Cycle 1 science programs due to start in a few short weeks.”

 

Read more:

blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/06/16/webbs-mid-infrared-spectro...

 

This image: These are the first engineering data cubes for each of the twelve MRS spectral bands, illustrating the astrometric registration and image quality for observations of HD 37122. In each panel the dashed cyan circle shows a 1 arcsecond radius region around the expected location of the star in celestial coordinates. While the star is bright at short wavelengths it fades toward longer wavelengths, where the MRS also detects thermal emission from Webb’s primary mirror. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the MIRI Consortium.

SILENT REVOLUTION - SYMBOL - Rovingian Council by Daniel Arrhakis (2026)

 

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Rovingian Council - The Silent Revolution

 

The philosophy of the Rovingian Council's "silent revolution" describes a model of metapolitical resistance, where the focus of change shifts from the collective to the individual. By prioritizing internal dominance over external institutional conflict, this framework suggests that systemic power becomes obsolete when it no longer finds anchorage in the psychology of the governed.

 

Central Mechanisms of the Silent Revolution

 

- Decoupling of Systems: Through Immunity through Integrity, the individual ceases to provide the "emotional fuel" (fear or submission) necessary for the functioning of hierarchical structures.

 

- Incremental Subversion: The Discreet Approach avoids the "rebound effect" of violent revolutions, which often replace one tyranny with another, promoting instead a gradual and irreversible cultural change through personal conduct.

 

- Psychological Neutrality: Active indifference serves as a defensive barrier; By refusing to participate in the dialectic of hatred or polarization, the individual deprives the systemic control mechanisms of their influence.

 

- Ethical Infrastructure: Applied Humanism and Practical Equality transfer values from the abstract to the physical. These practices create parallel social microstructures based on sharing and protection, instead of competition and segregation.

 

- Intellectual Autonomy/Sovereignty of Conscience: The defense of freedom of thought serves as the last and impenetrable bastion against totalitarian control and external propaganda.

 

Ultimately, this philosophy posits that a decentralized revolution is inevitable if a sufficient number of individuals achieve individual coherence, autonomy, and Sovereignty of Conscience, given that a system cannot govern a population that has collectively recovered its internal authority.

 

The Rovingian Council proposes that the best way to combat the shadows of totalitarianism and the oppression of reason is through the strengthening of the individual spirit. When the individual is sovereign and peaceful, the authoritarian system loses its ability to control them through fear.

  

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Conselho Rovingiano - A Revolução Silenciosa

 

A filosofia da revolução silenciosa do Conselho Rovingiano descreve um modelo de resistência metapolítica, onde o foco da mudança se desloca do coletivo para o indivíduo. Ao priorizar a dominância interna em detrimento do conflito institucional externo, esta estrutura sugere que o poder sistémico se torna obsoleto quando deixa de encontrar ancoragem na psicologia dos governados.

 

Mecanismos Centrais da Revolução Silenciosa

 

- Desacoplamento de Sistemas: Através da Imunidade através da Integridade, o indivíduo deixa de fornecer o "combustível emocional" (medo ou submissão) necessário ao funcionamento das estruturas hierárquicas.

 

- Subversão Incremental: A Abordagem Discreta evita o "efeito rebound" das revoluções violentas, que substituem frequentemente uma tirania por outra, promovendo, em vez disso, uma mudança cultural gradual e irreversível através da conduta pessoal.

 

- Neutralidade Psicológica: A indiferença ativa serve como barreira defensiva; ao recusar-se a participar na dialética do ódio ou da polarização, o indivíduo priva os mecanismos de controlo sistémico da sua influência.

 

- Infraestrutura Ética: O Humanismo Aplicado e a Igualdade Prática transferem valores do abstrato para o físico. Estas práticas criam microestruturas sociais paralelas baseadas na partilha e na proteção, em vez da competição e da segregação.

 

- Autonomia Intelectual/Soberania da Consciência: A defesa da liberdade de pensamento serve como último e impenetrável bastião contra o controlo totalitário e a propaganda externa.

 

Em última análise, esta filosofia postula que uma revolução descentralizada é inevitável se um número suficiente de indivíduos alcançar a coerência individual, a autonomia e a Soberania da Consciência, dado que um sistema não pode governar uma população que recuperou coletivamente a sua autoridade interna.

 

O Conselho Rovingiano propõe que a melhor forma de combater as sombras do totalitarismo e a opressão da razão é através do fortalecimento do espírito individual. Quando o indivíduo é soberano e pacífico, o sistema autoritário perde a sua capacidade de o controlar através do medo.

 

Lake Tekapo, Tekapo, South Island, New Zealand

 

One of my shooting protocols after the trip is to scan through every shot that I have and picked the potential one to do post-processing by giving the tagging in my entire album.

 

This particular shot has already been tagged but for some reason, I've missed out terribly, nearly 3 years buried in my storage. Luckily was doing some scanning photos in my album and suddenly saw this, quickly dig out and straight into editing mode.

 

I still remember this was the first place in our itinerary; the legendary The Church of The Good Shepherd. While we have our vehicle parked few kilometers away from the actual location, so we gotta walk and right before the church, we have to cross the bridge first.

 

Spotted a couple (I suppose) standing there right at the center of the bridge. Find it a fascinating angle with the natural lights on them and overall blended in perfectly. Without hesitation pressed the shuttle where my cameras were already on my shoulders.

 

Wanted to do our wefie photography, because we were too excited to rush towards the church and also too many crowds upcoming over the bridge so end up ditch the idea and move on to what we have been prioritizing first.

 

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Three Known Frames:

bubblegum tongue, your hand (my hand?), cherry blossoms

 

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Yesterday I made a (half) joke that I only shoot multiple exposures in order to save money on film costs. But I like how shooting atop my own already-shot film deflates the preciousness of each shot. When you choose not to preserve an image the way it was initially framed, you prioritize the final photograph not by how the self has made choices but how chaos has chosen to represent the self.

 

. . . True Power of Speedy Cars . . .

 

In Long-Term Domination, the Search for a Submissive is Like Finding a Reliable Car, Not a Joyride.

 

" Extreme Femdoms prioritize deep, powerful fetish experiences over superficial ones, which includes their extreme fetishes that are like powerful, rare engines in the relationship.

 

A good life is one that can be lived to the extreme and fullest every day, an engine that doesn't falter at any desired speed. If you want to overtake, you must do so. If you want to stop, you can do so any second you wish. How much do you want to change the speed? And for how long? Everything must be as desired. The best submissive is like a powerful engine that serves her at any speed... 💕"

 

🎧 Mood 🎶

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ciQf4HDxg

 

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Chapter: The Search for a Committed Submissive

 

She doesn't settle for showroom shine. Her heart seeks horsepower unseen.

 

Forget the polished exteriors, the chrome facade. She's not buying a car for the curb appeal. Her gaze cuts deeper, seeking the engine within. Is it a whisper-quiet sham, or a beast purring with potential?

 

Time and connection are precious investments, and she's no impulsive buyer. She demands a test drive, a journey into the core. Does it have the strength of character, the unwavering support? Or is it built on fumes, choked by empty promises?

 

Forget the manufactured charm, the carefully crafted persona. Let the hood come up, reveal the bare metal truth. Is it forged in integrity, driven by passion? Or does it sputter on self-interest, fueled by deceit?

 

She's not looking for a joyride, but a long haul companion. This machine carries her dreams, her vulnerabilities. It needs to be sturdy, reliable, capable of navigating life's winding roads.

 

So she chooses wisely, meticulously. Because under the hood, lies the truth of who you are. And that, my friend, is the most powerful engine of all... 💕

 

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Outfit: pOOnsh - Tiffany Jumpsuit (Fatpack)

 

✦ Legacy, Perky, Reborn, Waifus, LaraX

✦ IT INCLUDES Jumpsuit, Romper, HUD (14 colors + TintPicker for fatpack)

 

TRES CHIC (17 February - 10 March)

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POONSH store

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Watercolour on 140 lb. Arches cold press.

 

This is a wee experimental piece using rectangles within rectangles and varying the treatment of the plant. I had a lot of fun with it and plan to try a larger piece at some point. The trouble is I have so many things I want to try, and I need to prioritize, or nothing gets done.

#Manhattan #NewYork #USA. 2017.

マンハッタン。ニューヨーク。アメリカ。２０１７年。

#VAMPS - #WORLDS END

youtu.be/asbbg40HupM?si=y5uaVzGJZ7bO7BLA

  

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I have published my novel.

The English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese editions are already available here:

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

I was in the middle of translating Portuguese, but I am currently prioritizing the novel I'm writing. I will be able to work on this from February 15, 2027 onward. I am truly sorry.

 

僕は僕の小説を発表しました。

英語、スペイン語、フランス語、ドイツ語、イタリア語、中国語、韓国語、日本語は以下で発表済みです。

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

現在は、ポルトガル語を翻訳中でしたが、現在執筆中の小説を最優先にしています。

２０２７年２月１５日以降から取りかかります。ごめんなさい。

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My novel, B♭, is now available

I’m an Apple fan, so Apple products appear in the story. :)

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The Japanese and English editions have already been published.

 

It can be found in the following Drive folder:

Drive folder for novel publication:

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

B♭

Mitsushiro Nakagawa, with ChatGPT 5.5

North Korea’s cryptocurrency system is hacked, and hundreds of millions of dollars are stolen.

At the end of that hidden flow of money, a group of Palestinian men and women from Gaza secretly infiltrates the United States.

Their purpose is to “restore” their lost homeland, Gaza, on American soil.

A hard-line immigration policy led by the Republican Party.

A smoldering current of xenophobia within the country.

A society breaking further apart.

Using all of it, a plan to collapse America from within begins to move forward in silence.

Republican presidential candidate Justin Bradford is shot during a speech. Almost at the same time, in Los Angeles, former President Owen Reed is also gunned down.

Two gunshots split the nation in two.

Yet Justin miraculously survives.

What keeps him alive is one of the rarest blood types in the world: Bombay blood.

The person able to provide that blood is Anaya Patel, a community art facilitator working in Brooklyn.

The blood of one woman touches the fate of a nation.

That coincidence, as if it had never truly been coincidence, begins to draw her toward the center of an enormous event.

Terrorism, elections, immigration, blood, memory, and prayer.

Those who believe in destruction, and those who have seen the emptiness left beyond it.

A plan that began as revenge gradually blurs the boundary between salvation and nothingness.

The night of Manhattan.

The light of Brooklyn.

Memories left behind by the river.

The city continues to shine as if nothing has happened.

Yet beneath its feet, a low sound no one can hear is still ringing.

What does revenge take away?

Whom does prayer save?

And where do human beings go, carrying what they have lost?

Trailer

flic.kr/p/2rTrncc

Soundtrack

B♭ — My Novel Playlist

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack/pl.u-47...

B♭ — My Novel Playlist for Japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

© 2026 Mitsushiro Nakagawa. All rights reserved.

The copyright of this work belongs to Mitsushiro Nakagawa.

No part of this work may be reproduced, reprinted, or modified without the author’s permission.

#gaza #columbiauniversity #NYU #CCNY #UCLA #USC #UCBerkeley #YaleUniversity #HarvardUniversity #MIT #BrownUniversity #northwesternuniversity

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Ho pubblicato il mio romanzo.

Sono un fan di Apple, quindi nel romanzo compaiono anche prodotti Apple. :)

Potete trovarlo nel seguente Drive.

Cartella Drive per la pubblicazione del romanzo:

(cartella pubblica dedicata esclusivamente al romanzo)

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

B♭

Mitsushiro Nakagawa, with ChatGPT 5.5

Il sistema di criptovalute della Corea del Nord viene hackerato e vengono sottratti centinaia di milioni di dollari.

Seguendo il flusso di quel denaro, un gruppo di uomini e donne palestinesi originari di Gaza si introduce segretamente negli Stati Uniti.

Il loro obiettivo è “ricreare” sul suolo americano la patria perduta: Gaza.

La dura politica migratoria del Partito Repubblicano.

Il sentimento xenofobo che continua a covare nel Paese.

Una società che si divide sempre di più.

Sfruttando tutto questo, prende forma in silenzio un piano per far crollare l’America dall’interno.

Il candidato repubblicano alla presidenza, Justin Bradford, viene colpito durante un discorso e, quasi nello stesso momento, a Los Angeles anche l’ex presidente Owen Reed viene raggiunto da colpi d’arma da fuoco.

Due spari che dividono una nazione.

Eppure Justin sopravvive miracolosamente.

A tenerlo in vita è uno dei gruppi sanguigni più rari al mondo: il sangue Bombay.

L’unica persona in grado di donarglielo è Anaya Patel, una facilitatrice di arte comunitaria che lavora a Brooklyn.

Il sangue di una sola donna finisce per toccare il destino di un’intera nazione.

Quella coincidenza, come se fin dall’inizio non fosse mai stata davvero una coincidenza, trascina lentamente Anaya al centro di un evento enorme.

Terrorismo, elezioni, immigrazione, sangue, memoria, preghiera.

Chi crede nella distruzione e chi, dopo la distruzione, ha visto il vuoto che rimane.

Un piano nato come vendetta comincia a confondere, poco a poco, il confine tra salvezza e nulla.

La notte di Manhattan.

La luce di Brooklyn.

I ricordi rimasti lungo il fiume.

La città continua a brillare come se nulla fosse accaduto.

Eppure, sotto i suoi piedi, risuona una nota bassa che nessuno può udire.

Che cosa porta via la vendetta?

Chi può salvare una preghiera?

E dove può andare una persona continuando a portare con sé ciò che ha perduto?

Trailer

flic.kr/p/2rTrncc

Soundtrack

B♭ — My Novel Playlist

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack/pl.u-47...

B♭ — My Novel Playlist for Japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

© 2026 Mitsushiro Nakagawa. Tutti i diritti riservati.

Il copyright della presente opera appartiene a Mitsushiro Nakagawa. È vietato riprodurre, ripubblicare o modificare, in tutto o in parte, il contenuto dell’opera senza l’autorizzazione dell’autore.

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저는 제 소설을 발표했습니다.

저는 애플 팬이기 때문에 작품 속에 Apple 제품들이 등장합니다. :)

소설은 아래 드라이브에서 보실 수 있습니다.

소설 공개용 Drive 폴더:

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

B♭

Mitsushiro Nakagawa, with ChatGPT 5.5

북한의 암호화폐 시스템이 해킹당하고, 수억 달러가 탈취된다.

그 자금의 흐름 끝에서, 가자 출신의 팔레스타인 남녀로 이루어진 한 그룹이 비밀리에 미국으로 잠입한다.

그들의 목적은 잃어버린 조국 가자를 미국 땅 위에 ‘복원’하는 것이었다.

공화당의 강경한 이민 정책.

미국 사회 안에 잠재된 배외 감정.

점점 깊어지는 사회의 분열.

그 모든 것을 이용해 미국을 내부에서부터 붕괴시키려는 계획이 조용히 진행된다.

공화당 대통령 후보 저스틴 브래드퍼드가 연설 도중 총격을 받고, 거의 같은 시각 로스앤젤레스에서는 전 대통령 오언 리드 역시 총격을 당한다.

국가를 둘로 갈라놓는 두 발의 총성.

그러나 저스틴은 기적적으로 살아남는다.

그의 생명을 이어준 것은 세계적으로도 극히 희귀한 혈액형――봄베이 블러드.

그 혈액을 제공할 수 있었던 사람은 브루클린에서 활동하는 커뮤니티 아트 퍼실리테이터, 아나야 파텔이었다.

한 여성의 피가 국가의 운명에 닿아버린다.

그 우연은 마치 처음부터 우연이 아니었던 것처럼, 결국 그녀 자신을 거대한 사건의 중심으로 끌어당긴다.

테러, 선거, 이민, 피, 기억, 기도.

파괴를 믿는 사람과, 파괴의 끝에 남는 공허를 보아버린 사람.

복수로 시작된 계획은 어느 순간부터 구원과 허무의 경계를 흐릿하게 만들어간다.

맨해튼의 밤.

브루클린의 빛.

강가에 남겨진 기억.

도시는 아무 일도 없었던 것처럼 계속 빛난다.

하지만 그 발밑에서는 누구에게도 들리지 않는 낮은 소리가 울리고 있다.

복수는 무엇을 빼앗는가.

기도는 누구를 구하는가.

그리고 인간은 잃어버린 것들을 품은 채 어디로 향하는가.

Trailer

flic.kr/p/2rTrncc

Soundtrack

B♭ — My Novel Playlist

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack/pl.u-47...

B♭ — My Novel Playlist for Japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

© 2026 Mitsushiro Nakagawa. All rights reserved.

본 작품의 저작권은 Mitsushiro Nakagawa에게 있습니다. 저자의 허가 없이 본 작품의 전부 또는 일부를 복제, 전재 또는 개작하는 것을 금지합니다.

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我已经发表了我的小说。目前，英文版、西班牙文版、法文版、德文版和中文版均已发布，可通过以下链接阅读。

因为我是苹果产品的爱好者，所以小说中也会出现苹果公司的产品。:)

作品位于以下 Google Drive 文件夹中。

小说公开专用 Drive 文件夹：

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

B♭

Mitsushiro Nakagawa, with ChatGPT 5.5

朝鲜的加密货币系统遭到黑客入侵，数亿美元被夺走。

沿着这笔资金的流向，一群来自加沙的巴勒斯坦男女秘密潜入了美国。

他们的目的，是在美国的土地上“复原”已经失去的故乡——加沙。

共和党推行的强硬移民政策。

在国内暗自燃烧的排外情绪。

逐渐走向分裂的社会。

一项利用这一切、试图从内部摧毁美国的计划，正在寂静之中缓缓推进。

共和党总统候选人贾斯汀·布拉德福德在演讲期间遭到枪击。几乎就在同一时刻，前总统欧文·里德也在洛杉矶遇袭。

两声枪响，将国家撕裂成两半。

然而，贾斯汀奇迹般地活了下来。

维系住他生命的，是一种在全世界都极为罕见的血型——孟买血型。

能够为他提供这种血液的人，是一位活跃于布鲁克林的社区艺术促进者——阿纳亚·帕特尔。

一个女人的血，触碰到了一个国家的命运。

那场偶然，仿佛从一开始就并非偶然。它逐渐将她本人拖入一场巨大事件的中心。

恐怖袭击、选举、移民、血液、记忆与祈祷。

有人相信破坏。

也有人在破坏的尽头，看见了遗留下来的空虚。

一项始于复仇的计划，不知不觉间，模糊了救赎与虚无之间的界线。

曼哈顿的夜。

布鲁克林的光。

遗留在河岸边的记忆。

城市依旧闪耀，仿佛什么都不曾发生。

然而，在它的脚下，却有一种无人能够听见的低沉声音，始终回响着。

复仇，究竟会夺走什么？

祈祷，究竟能够拯救谁？

而人，又将怀抱着那些已经失去的事物，走向何方？

预告片

flic.kr/p/2rTrncc

原声歌单

B♭ — My Novel Playlist

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack/pl.u-47...

B♭ — My Novel Playlist for Japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

© 2026 Mitsushiro Nakagawa. 版权所有。

本作品的著作权归 Mitsushiro Nakagawa 所有。未经作者许可，禁止对本作品的全部或部分内容进行复制、转载或修改。

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Ich habe meinen Roman veröffentlicht. Die englische, spanische, französische und deutsche Fassung sind unten bereits veröffentlicht.

 

Zurzeit arbeite ich an der Übersetzung ins Chinesische, in vereinfachten Schriftzeichen.

 

Da ich ein Apple-Fan bin, kommen auch Apple-Produkte vor. :)

 

Der Roman befindet sich im folgenden Drive-Ordner.

 

Drive folder for novel publication: (öffentlicher Drive-Ordner speziell für meinen Roman)

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

 

B♭

Mitsushiro Nakagawa, with ChatGPT 5.5

 

Das Kryptowährungssystem Nordkoreas wird gehackt, und mehrere hundert Millionen Dollar werden entwendet.

Am Ende dieses Geldflusses infiltriert eine Gruppe palästinensischer Männer und Frauen aus Gaza heimlich die Vereinigten Staaten.

 

Ihr Ziel ist es, die verlorene Heimat Gaza auf amerikanischem Boden zu „rekonstruieren“.

 

Die harte Einwanderungspolitik der Republikaner.

Die im Inneren des Landes schwelende Fremdenfeindlichkeit.

Eine Gesellschaft, die sich immer weiter spaltet.

 

All das nutzen sie aus, und im Stillen schreitet ein Plan voran, Amerika von innen heraus zum Einsturz zu bringen.

 

Der republikanische Präsidentschaftskandidat Justin Bradford wird während einer Rede angeschossen. Beinahe zur selben Zeit wird in Los Angeles auch der frühere Präsident Owen Reed Opfer eines Attentats.

 

Zwei Schüsse, die eine Nation entzweien.

 

Doch Justin überlebt wie durch ein Wunder.

Was sein Leben rettet, ist eine selbst weltweit äußerst seltene Blutgruppe ― Bombay-Blut.

Diejenige, die dieses Blut spenden kann, ist Anaya Patel, eine Community-Art-Facilitatorin aus Brooklyn.

 

Das Blut einer einzelnen Frau berührt das Schicksal einer Nation.

Dieser Zufall zieht sie, als wäre er vielleicht nie ein Zufall gewesen, nach und nach in das Zentrum eines gewaltigen Ereignisses.

 

Terrorismus, Wahlkampf, Einwanderung, Blut, Erinnerung, Gebet.

Menschen, die an Zerstörung glauben, und Menschen, die am Ende der Zerstörung die Leere sehen.

Ein Plan, der als Rache beginnt, lässt irgendwann die Grenze zwischen Erlösung und Nichts verschwimmen.

 

Die Nacht Manhattans.

Das Licht Brooklyns.

Erinnerungen, die am Flussufer zurückgeblieben sind.

 

Die Stadt leuchtet weiter, als wäre nichts geschehen.

Doch unter ihren Füßen erklingt ein tiefer Ton, den niemand hört.

 

Was raubt Rache?

Wen rettet ein Gebet?

Und wohin geht der Mensch, während er das Verlorene weiter in sich trägt?

 

Trailer

flic.kr/p/2rTrncc

 

Soundtrack

B♭ ― My Novel Playlist

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack/pl.u-47...

 

B♭ ― My Novel Playlist for Japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

 

© 2026 Mitsushiro Nakagawa. All rights reserved.

Das Urheberrecht an diesem Werk liegt bei Mitsushiro Nakagawa. Die Vervielfältigung, Weiterverbreitung oder Bearbeitung des gesamten Inhalts oder einzelner Teile ist ohne Genehmigung des Autors untersagt.

 

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J’ai publié la version française de mon roman.

Mon roman, B♭ (Si bémol), est désormais disponible.

Les versions japonaise, anglaise et espagnole ont déjà été publiées.

Comme je suis un fan d’Apple, des produits Apple apparaissent dans l’histoire. :)

Il est disponible dans le dossier Drive ci-dessous.

Drive folder for novel publication:

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

B♭

Mitsushiro Nakagawa, avec ChatGPT 5.5

Le système de cryptomonnaie de la Corée du Nord est piraté, et plusieurs centaines de millions de dollars sont dérobés.

Au bout du flux de cet argent, un groupe d’hommes et de femmes palestiniens originaires de Gaza s’infiltre secrètement aux États-Unis.

Leur objectif est de « reconstituer », sur le sol américain, la patrie perdue qu’est Gaza.

Une politique migratoire dure menée par les Républicains.

Un sentiment xénophobe qui couve au sein du pays.

Une société qui se divise peu à peu.

En exploitant tout cela, un plan destiné à faire s’effondrer l’Amérique de l’intérieur avance en silence.

Le candidat républicain à la présidence, Justin Bradford, est abattu en plein discours ; presque au même moment, à Los Angeles, l’ancien président Owen Reed est lui aussi victime d’une fusillade.

Deux coups de feu qui fendent la nation en deux.

Mais Justin survit miraculeusement.

Ce qui lui sauve la vie est un groupe sanguin extrêmement rare dans le monde : le sang Bombay.

La seule personne capable de lui donner ce sang est Anaya Patel, facilitatrice d’art communautaire active à Brooklyn.

Le sang d’une femme touche soudain au destin d’une nation.

Ce hasard, comme s’il n’avait finalement jamais été un hasard, attire peu à peu Anaya elle-même au centre d’un événement immense.

Terrorisme, élections, immigration, sang, mémoire, prière.

Ceux qui croient en la destruction, et ceux qui finissent par voir le vide laissé au-delà de la destruction.

Un plan né comme une vengeance brouille peu à peu la frontière entre salut et néant.

La nuit de Manhattan.

La lumière de Brooklyn.

Les souvenirs laissés au bord du fleuve.

La ville continue de briller comme si rien ne s’était passé.

Mais sous ses pieds, un son grave, que personne n’entend, continue de résonner.

Que prend la vengeance ?

Qui la prière sauve-t-elle ?

Et vers où les êtres humains se dirigent-ils, en portant avec eux ce qu’ils ont perdu ?

Trailer

flic.kr/p/2rTrncc

Soundtrack

B♭ — My Novel Playlist

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack/pl.u-47...

B♭ — My Novel Playlist for Japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

© 2026 Mitsushiro Nakagawa. Tous droits réservés.

Les droits d’auteur de cette œuvre appartiennent à Mitsushiro Nakagawa. Toute reproduction, republication ou modification, totale ou partielle, du contenu de cette œuvre sans l’autorisation de l’auteur est interdite.

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He publicado la edición en español de mi novela.

Mi novela, B♭, ya está disponible.

Soy fan de Apple, así que en la historia aparecen productos de Apple. :)

 

Las ediciones en japonés y en inglés ya han sido publicadas.

Puede encontrarse en la siguiente carpeta de Drive:

Carpeta de Drive para la publicación de la novela:

drive.google.com/drive/folders/13PJuSA8Q2AdvVd7JGl-Q4AVTA...

B♭

Mitsushiro Nakagawa, with ChatGPT 5.5

El sistema de criptomonedas de Corea del Norte es hackeado, y cientos de millones de dólares son robados.

Al final de ese flujo oculto de dinero, un group de hombres y mujeres palestinos originarios de Gaza se infiltra secretamente en los Estados Unidos.

Su propósito es “restaurar” su patria perdida, Gaza, sobre suelo estadounidense.

Una política migratoria de línea dura impulsada por el Partido Republicano.

Una corriente latente de xenofobia dentro del país.

Una sociedad que se fractura cada vez más.

Aprovechándolo todo, un plan para derrumbar a Estados Unidos desde dentro empieza a avanzar en silencio.

El candidato presidencial republicano Justin Bradford recibe un disparo durante un discurso. Casi al mismo tiempo, en Los Ángeles, el expresidente Owen Reed también es baleado.

Dos disparos dividen a la nación en dos.

Sin embargo, Justin sobrevive milagrosamente.

Lo que mantiene su vida es uno de los tipos de sangre más raros del mundo: la sangre Bombay.

La única persona capaz de donar esa sangre es Anaya Patel, una facilitadora de arte comunitario que trabaja en Brooklyn.

La sangre de una sola mujer toca el destino de una nación.

Aquella coincidencia, como si nunca hubiera sido realmente una coincidencia, comienza a arrastrarla hacia el centro de un acontecimiento inmenso.

Terrorismo, elecciones, inmigración, sangre, memoria y plegaria.

Quienes creen en la destrucción, y quienes han visto el vacío que queda más allá de ella.

Un plan que comenzó como venganza va desdibujando, poco a poco, la frontera entre la salvación y la nada.

La noche de Manhattan.

La luz de Brooklyn.

Los recuerdos abandonados junto al río.

La ciudad sigue brillando como si nada hubiera ocurrido.

Pero bajo sus pies continúa resonando una nota grave que nadie puede oír.

¿Qué arrebata la venganza?

¿A quién salva la plegaria?

¿Y hacia dónde se dirigen los seres humanos, cargando con aquello que han perdido?

Tráiler

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Banda sonora

B♭ — My Novel Playlist

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B♭ — My Novel Playlist for Japanese

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Los derechos de autor de esta obra pertenecen a Mitsushiro Nakagawa.

Ninguna parte de esta obra podrá ser reproducida, reimpresa ni modificada sin la autorización del autor.

 

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僕は僕の小説を発表しました。

 

僕はアップルファンなので、アップル製品が登場します。:)

 

それは以下のドライブにあります。

 

Drive folder for novel publication: (小説専門の公開用ドライブ)

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B♭

Mitsushiro Nakagawa, with ChatGPT 5.5

 

北朝鮮の仮想通貨システムがハッキングされ、数億ドルが奪取された。

その資金の流れの先で、ガザ出身のパレスチナ男女のグループが、密かにアメリカ合衆国へ潜入する。

彼らの目的は、失われた祖国ガザを、アメリカの地に「復元」することだった。

共和党による強硬な移民政策。

国内にくすぶる排外感情。

分断されていく社会。

そのすべてを利用し、アメリカを内側から崩壊させる計画が、静かに進行していく。

共和党大統領候補ジャスティン・ブラッドフォードが演説中に撃たれ、ほぼ同じ時刻、ロサンゼルスでは前大統領オーウェン・リードもまた銃撃される。

国家を二分する、ふたつの銃声。

だが、ジャスティンは奇跡的に生還する。

彼の命をつないだのは、世界でも極めて希少な血液型――ボンベイブラッド。

その血を提供できたのは、ブルックリンで活動するコミュニティアート・ファシリテーター、アナヤ・パテルだった。

ひとりの女性の血が、国家の運命に触れてしまう。

その偶然は、やがて偶然ではなかったかのように、彼女自身を巨大な事件の中心へ引き寄せていく。

テロ、選挙、移民、血、記憶、祈り。

破壊を信じる者と、破壊の果てに残る空虚を見てしまう者。

復讐として始まった計画は、いつしか救済と虚無の境界を曖昧にしていく。

マンハッタンの夜。

ブルックリンの光。

川辺に残された記憶。

都市は何事もなかったかのように輝き続けている。

だがその足元では、誰にも聞こえない低い音が鳴っている。

復讐は、何を奪うのか。

祈りは、誰を救うのか。

そして人は、失われたものを抱えたまま、どこへ向かうのか。

 

Trailer

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Soundtrack

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B♭ — My Novel Playlist for Japanese

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The Complete Production Archive of B♭ (B-flat) 184MB over . — Now Publicly Available

This collection contains more than 3,000 A4-sized pages documenting the novel’s conception, writing, revision, and translation.

It all began in the Notes app on my iPhone.

These materials trace the ideas, decisions, and countless trials and errors behind the completion of a single novel.

I hope this archive will serve as a small guide and source of inspiration for aspiring writers around the world.

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『B♭（ビーフラット）』制作資料、全公開。184MB over .

A4換算で3,000ページを超える、構想・執筆・推敲・翻訳の記録です。

これらはすべて、iPhoneの「メモ」から始まりました。

一つの小説が完成するまでの、思考と試行錯誤の足跡です。

作家を目指す世界中の誰かにとって、この資料が小さな道しるべになることを願っています。

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マスター　４月にだって雪はフルっ！

 

新しい、メモ、走り書き

  

【オープニング】

  

２０２６年、１月下旬　試験会場、千葉、帝京大学　試験　現代文

  

試験会場の教室、

真っ白で無機質な部屋

 

試験官、試験に関する説明を淡々としている。静寂。白い壁、白い蛍光灯、外を見れば白い雲。

そして、俺らもまだ白い白紙。目の前には、真っ白な回答用紙。

現代文、か、

くっそ、体がぶるって、指の震えが止まらねー。となりの、もずの巣ヘッドに気づかれてねーだろーなー、こいつ、ワックス使って立ててんのか？　どーでもいいか。

  

試験官の感情ゼロな発声、はじめてください。彼はそう言いながら、目を落としていた自分の腕時計から視線を剥がした。

  

現代文

一問目

「あなたはどうして大学へ進むのですか？」

は？

俺の問題用紙、間違ってなくね？　問題用紙を裏がしたり確認するが、帝京大学　現代文と書かれている。

頬をつねるが、痛い。いったん問題用紙を閉じて、開くが以前として問題はそこにある。

「あなたはどうして大学へ進むのですか？」

どうしてって、みんな、大学、行くじゃん、とりあえず。

問題用紙が微かに震える。笑っているように見えた。

「目的がないのですか？　あなたは何を目指していますか？」

みんな、とりあえず、行くじゃん、大学。しかも、有名であればあるほどかっこいいじゃん。

大東亜帝国より、日東駒専 。

それよりも、 成成明学獨國武 。

そして、俺が目指す明治大学が属すMARCH。

マーチの上は、まぁ、俺には無理だけど、でも、明治は制覇できる。絶対に。

また、問題用紙が震えた。さっきよりも大きく笑って見えた。

「ははーん、いい大学に入って、いい会社に就職する。素敵な夢だねー」

ユウ、いらっとする。そして俯く。

俺はさ、もう、ずっとずっとずっと前にお前のその質問には答え、そして、今ここにいる。

お前のいうとおり、俺、なにを目指していいか、わからないんだ。建築家や料理人になりたいとか、アーティストやアスリートになりたいとか、そんなのにもまったく才能ないし。

スポーツも勉強もできない。夢らしい夢のかけらすらない。

道がまったく見えないんだ。まったく、なにも。。。。。

回答用紙、さらに震える。

「じゃ、合格は無理だね。絶対に合格させない」

さっきよりさらに震えて笑っている。

ユウ、俯いたまま、つぶやく。

「夢らしい夢は描けないけど、俺、ふたつだけ、ふたつだけは、絶対にやりたいことがあるんだ」

「ふたつ？　なに？　それは？　ちゃんと具体的に言える？」

「曖昧で、とっても揺れている。めちゃ、弱いよ。それでも、やり遂げるべきだと思えるんだ」

「…..　それってなに？」

それは。。。。。。。

  

ユウ、ユウ、ユウ、起きて、、、、、

面接中よ、母、栞の慌てた声。

自学管理塾「成田自修館」、塾長、苦笑い。

「いいね、面接中に居眠り。いままで、たくさんこの塾から有名大学へ進学したけど、そのメンタルはなかった。見たことない。嫌味でなくね」

母、栞、ひたすら、すいませーん。ほんとに。。。。

「お母さん、気にしないでください。いっしょにやりましょう、明治大学、マーチへ行きましょう」

「ありがとうございます。ユウもお礼言って」

「。。。。ありがとうございます（。。。チッ！）

「それでは、ユウさんを担当する先生をご紹介します。どうぞ、水野 航平先生」

水野先生、若い、若いぞ。若すぎないか？

「先生は、成成明学獨國武の明治学院大学 経済学部経営学科2年、２０才です」

ユウ、慌てる。

「俺、マーチ目指しているんですけど。明治学院？」

水野先生、苦笑い。

「だいじょうぶ、僕も目指していたから」

罪のない笑顔でにっこりに、ユウ、すかさずツッコミ。

「ってことは、明治大学、落ちたんでしょ？」

「１点差、でね。もう悔しくて悔しくて、一年間眠れなかったけど、今はぐっすり眠っています。悔しかったけど、現実は受け入れました」

「嫌な予感しかねーじゃん！　まじかよー」

塾長、すかさず笑顔でフォローアップ。

「っていうか、いま空いている先生、水野先生だけなんだ。うち、結構人気あって。とりあえず、ユウくんは偏差値３５だから、水野先生でしばらく様子見しようよ」

栞、すかさず、

「水野先生、よろしくお願いします」

となりのユウを肘でつつく。ユウも頭を下げる。

「よし、決まりですね。それでは今からということで。お母さんは帰宅してください」

  

「ユウ、じゃ、お母さんは先に帰るね」

「あぁ、電車で帰るよ」

「じゃ、ユウくんはこっちへ」

塾の席は、板で仕切られ、碁盤の目のようになっている。完全に個人で勉強する仕組みだ。小学生の頃、ユウが地元の神社に開設されていた公文塾と同じ方式で、個人の能力に完全に沿ってひとつひとつ階段を昇るように成長させていく。

仕切り板が邪魔するものの、航平はユウの隣の席に座り、手にした入塾する前に受けた試験の内容に目を落とした。そして、ユウが千葉聖徳学園で前回受けた試験の両方を凝視している。さきほどまでの航平のいまどきのやんわり大学生の顔つきとはまるで変わっていた。眺めながら、うーんと低く唸っている。

「今からマーチ？　笑えるよな。みんな２年の、遅くても夏から取り掛かっているんだぜ」

ユウは、背もたれを思い切り、押し倒して声の方へ目をやった。どうやら壁際に並んだ二人組の声のようだ。椅子の背には、学生服がかけられていた。襟には、校章のバッジが見える。千葉県立 成田蒼陵高等学校だ。

　千葉県全体のトップ層に位置するのが渋谷幕張、県立千葉高校、市川高校、そして、県立高校のトップ層に来るのが県立千葉高校、県立船橋、東葛飾だ。

　蒼陵は県内でもおそらくベスト５に入る進学校だ。そして、２年前、ユウが落ちた高校でもあった。

「先生、あいつら、蒼陵？」

「あー、そうだよ。右側が白石くん、左側が橘川くんだ」

ユウは、ふーん、と軽い返事をした。航平はつづけた。

「白石くんは慶應義塾大学 経済学部、橘川くんは早稲田大学 商学部を目指しいてる。そして、橘川くんは僕が担当している」

「先生って、何人掛け持ちなの？」

「ユウくんさ、先生はやめよう。航平でいいよ」

「呼び捨てはまずいでしょ。じゃ、航平さんね」

じゃ、それで、と苦笑いで返す。

「僕は、大学通いながらみんなを見てるから、ユウくんで二人目だよ」

「で、あいつ、やっぱりできる？　キレキレ？」

航平、真顔になって、

「ユウくん、これから長い道を歩く。試験までの日数は限られている。あと何日間という考えは捨てる。あと何時間だ。きょう、何時間を費やし、どこまで進め、固めたか。そこが重要だ」

ユウはふーんと答え、で、あいつ、キレキレ？　と再度尋ねた。

「蒼陵だよ？　いうまでもないよ」

「偏差値は？」

「あとで本人に訊きなよ。っていうか、ユウくん、他人は視野に入れるな。いま、自分がどこにいて、どう歩いていくか。自分だけを今は考えて」

「了解」

「でも、、、、」

「でも？」

「この先、入試の申し込みがある。そのとき、めいいっぱい、他人の動きと情報を正確に読み、僕らは動く。これは塾全体でも動向を正確に把握し、みんなを誘う」

「。。。。。。」

「だから、君は決して独りではない。そこだけは絶対に忘れないでほしい」

「ありがと」

しばらく、沈黙が落ち、航平は重い口調でつづけた。

「でも、基本は独りだ。君は自分の壁の前に立ち、自分の力で、たった独りで、越えなければならない。君を越えられるのは、君だけだ。忘れないで」

真顔の航平にユウは沈黙した。自分が２０歳になったとき、こんな風に、誰かに喋れるだろうか。誰かの人生を左右する瞬間を自分が責任を持って手を引けるだろうか。。。。。

「ユウくんの試験結果を見た限り、中学１年生の基礎からはじめないと」

「中1？」

「そ、中１」

「高３の俺が？」

「そ」

「ディス、イズ、ア、ペン？」

「そ」

「まじか」

「まじさ。英語の試験結果を見ると、最初の基礎がほとんど間違えていて、中盤の難しいところは正解だ。そして、後半、さらに難しい長文読解のところは完全に間違えている。つまり、基礎ができていないんだ。ちなみに他の科目もだ。英語は絶対基礎からは決まりだけど、ほかの科目は目指す大学の学部によって決める。いま、ユウくんは数学とってるね」

「そうなんだ。数学、嫌いじゃなくて、まぁそこそこ点数も取れて高二の文系理数系選ぶ時も迷ったんだ」

「うん、悪くないね。たしかにセンスがある。でも、いまから数学は完全に無理だ。理数系はそんな甘くない。数学の基礎固めを今から始めるには時間がない。遅すぎる。圧倒的に。だから、数学は捨てる。完全にやめだ」

「そうなんだ。やっぱり難しいんだ。あ、小松原先生もいってたな。数学は今からはきついって。そういえば、直哉もいってたか」

「直哉？　同級生？」

「そ、おなじ八街の奴で、一般で目指してる」

「数学は英語と同じように基礎が大事なんだ。話は逸れるけど、アマゾンって登録してる？」

「クレカないから、ときどき直で買ったりしてるけど、なんで？」

「うちは授業をしないのは有名だから知ってるよね？　すべて個人のペースで君が自分で一歩ずつ進めていく。その資料、授業の参考書は、うちの本部のスタッフが精査し、選定された参考書で進めていく。それを君にアマゾンで購入してもらう」

「了解。父さんに頼むよ。いつもアマゾン使ってるから」

「よし。じゃ、まずは英語から始めよう。英語はすべて共通だから。ほかのは、さっき話したように君が行きたい大学とその学部によって決定する」

「オーケー」

  

２０２６年１月１日　午後6時

八街駅、北口。人気のないロータリー。

白い街灯の灯りのなかを、霧雨が緩い北風に揺れ、舞い上がっている。

階段の下、俯いていた佳奈は顔を上げた。頬が銀色に濡れていた。

「ユウ、、、、ユウは、いったい何を見ているの？」

  

つづく

  

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明治大学、学長、２０２６年度、入学式の言葉から。

「この大学を卒業する時、みなさんは、世界を語り始めるでしょう」

  

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【次の小説】( ２０２７年２月１４日予定 )

  

《４月にだって雪はフルっ！　ー 偏差値３５からのマーチ ー》

  

"Check it out"

メインテーマ

MAKKURAGE -　目玉焼き、カフェオレ、透明。 [Lyric Video]

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　"Check it out"

Images:

【プレイリスト】

４月にだって雪はフルっ！　ー 偏差値３５からのマーチ ー（勝手にサントラ:)　プレイリスト編集中

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1.二十一世紀少年 ― MAKKURAGE

2.目玉焼き、カフェオレ、透明。 ― MAKKURAGE

3.Five ― 嵐

4.カリスマックス ― Snow Man

5.未確認領域 ― Number_i

6.LOOP ― Number_i

7.カラクリカルカレ ― UNISON SQUARE GARDEN

8.月曜日 / 無菌室 ― People In The Box

9.ずっと～You are my Everything～ ― Kis-My-Ft2

10.INZM (Hyper Band ver.) ― Number_i

11.夜の向こうへ ― Kis-My-Ft2

12.greenforest, umbrella ― MAKKURAGE

13.カラクリナイト ― MAKKURAGE

14.3 minutes replay ― UNISON SQUARE GARDEN

15.Your eyes have all the answer ― the cabs

16.さようなら、こんにちは ― People In The Box

17.PIKA☆☆NCHI DOUBLE ― 嵐

18.らいおんハート ― SMAP

19.濁った水たまり ― MAKKURAGE

20.Love so sweet : Reborn ― 嵐

21.ダーリン ― Mrs. GREEN APPLE

22.115万キロのフィルム ― Official髭男dism

  

#MAKKURAGE #UNISONSQUAREGARDEN #thecabs #PeopleInTheBox #MrsGREENAPPLE #Official髭男dism

#Number_i #Snowman #kis-My-Ft2 #嵐 #SMAP

 

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４月にだって雪はフルっ！　ー偏差値３５からのマーチー

 

勝手にキャスティング　

 

主人公　神崎　ユウ　　深澤 辰哉さん（スノーマン）

お父さん　神崎　完　　二宮さん（嵐）

お母さん　神崎　沙織　上戸彩さん

 

以下、走り書きのメモ　第一弾　／３

  

【４月にだって雪はフルっ！　ー偏差値３５からのマーチー】

  

冒頭

 

２０２６年、１月下旬。千葉県千葉市市内。某施設。

大学入試、初日。

 

帝京大学（丸々学部）ー　

 

時計のない、部屋ー

スーツを着た試験官が、テストの説明をしている。

やけに乾いたせつめーじゃねーか。

くそ、手の震えがおさまらねー

隣のやつに気づかれてねーだろーなー、ぶるってんの。

鉛筆のてっぺんがぶるってるよ。やべー、オレ。

 

「それでは、はじめてください」

  

一１年前ー

 

新田塾ー成田校

三者面談。

塾長。そして、主人公、神崎ユウ。

母、神崎　沙織。

 

塾長「どーしても、マーチですか。ちょっとどうかなー」

試しの試験で偏差値３５。

周囲の高校生。近所にある進学校の生徒たちが、聞こえるように、

「これから、マーチだって」（笑）

「もうみんな2年からやってるのにな」（聞こえるように言う）

 

母「あ、あのーまぁー本人がそう言ってまして～」

塾長「第二志望って、ちなみにー」

間髪入れず、

「東洋大学、経済学部」

塾長　「ーーーいいねー、うーん、いいよー。日東駒専ねー」

母、めいいっぱい俯く。

  

走り書き 第２弾

 

以下に 書いた、 第1弾に、お父さん役の、嵐、二宮さんが登場していなかったので、ちょっと走り書きしました。

仮題　

４月にだって雪はフルっ！　ー偏差値３５からのマーチー

勝手にキャスティング　

主人公　神崎　ユウ　　深澤 辰哉さん（スノーマン）

お父さん　神崎　完　　二宮さん（嵐）

お母さん　神崎　沙織　上戸彩さん

 

千葉県八街市、ユウの2階の部屋。

父「ユウ、お母さんがユウはどこの大学に行きたいんだろうねって、ちょっと心配してたぞ」

ユウ「この前、言ったじゃん、マーチだよ、マーチ」

父、階下のお母さんへ声を張り上げる

「かーさーん、ユウは、マーチ受けるってよー」

母「マーチって、あのー、千葉商科大学のとなりにある東京マーチ大学？」

父「そうなのか？　ユウ？」

「たぶん、それじゃない」

父「違うってさー」

母「おかあさん、混乱しちゃうわー」

ユウ「ごめん、俺が言い方間違ったわ。明治大学。第一希望は」

父「かーさーんー」

母「はーいーー」

父「ユウは、明治大学受けるってさー」

母、それを聞いて、二階へ駆け上がってきて、

「おかあさん、その大学知ってるわー聞いたことあるー」

父、右手を胸の辺りで垂直に伸ばし、首を左右に振る。

「ジョーダンじゃないよー」

ユウ「は？」

父「ユウ、知らないのか？　お前、明治、遠ざかるぞ。たけちゃんマンは明治だ」

母「お父さん、なつかしー。サえてるー」

ユウ「。。。。。。。」

父「じゃ、これはどうだ？」

父、ギターのストロークを真似しながら、

「お、お、お、おー、ラーイドタイム！」

母「素敵ータツローねー」

ユウ「曲は知ってるけど、オンが抜けてるよ」

父「ユウ、そんな難しいことは考えるな」

ユウ「大事だろ、そこは」

母「おかあさん、うれしいわー、たけちゃんマンとタツローの後輩になるのね。ステキー」

父「お父さんも、うれしいぞー」窓をがらっと開けて、

「うちの子は、明治受けまーす！」

ユウ「やめろって。恥ずかしい。ちなみに受けるのは誰でもできるだろ」

父母、動きがストップ。

父「ユウ、大学って誰でも受けれるのか？　母さん、そうなのか？」

母「そうみたいね」

父、また窓の外に向かって、

「明治大学は、だれでも受けれまーすっ！！」

ユウ「だからやめろって」

父「間違ったから訂正しとかないとな」

母「ユウ、おとうさんが正しいですよ」

ユウ「正しいとかの問題なん？　これ」

  

つづく。

  

走り書き第3弾　

 

以下に 書いた、 第1弾、第２弾に、彼女役の、生見 愛瑠（ぬくみ める）さんを勝手にキャスティング。:)

  

仮題　

４月にだって雪はフルっ！　ー 偏差値３５からのマーチ ー

 

勝手にキャスティング　

 

主人公　神崎　ユウ　　深澤 辰哉さん（スノーマン）

お父さん　神崎　完　　二宮さん（嵐）

お母さん　神崎　沙織　上戸彩さん

 

主人公ユウの彼女

恵比寿 可奈（えびす かな）　生見 愛瑠（ぬくみ める）さん

youtube.com/shorts/fH-4ZjV1uVc?si=hu8Ed73NblYKccAH

  

２０２５年１２月２４日　午後六寺

東京ディズニーランド前　イルミネーションの青が、夜の黒に重なって、深みを与えている。白い光の線が交錯している。

 

可奈、iPhoneの探す機能で、ユウの位置を確認。まだ自宅。自宅？？？

（アイフォン、ライン、まるで無反応。模擬だったから、ひょっとしたら、ひたすら眠ってるのかも）

 

ディズニーランド前、恋人同士だけでなく、家族などの笑顔が溢れている。

どっと落ち込む可奈。でも、開き直って、顔を上げる。

仕方ないよ、受験だし。帰るっ！

 

「ごめん、寝坊したわ」

可奈が振り返ると、ユウが立っている。

寝巻きのスウェットとジャージで参上。

それは可奈が2年前にプレゼントしたスウェットとジャージ。寝巻きだ。高校のジャージと大差なし。

 

「なんでそのカッコなの？」

「起きて、速攻で電車乗ってきた」

「スマホは？」

「財布持って、突っ走って、電車乗って、気づいたら忘れてた。ほら、八街ってさ、電車一本逃すと即死だから」

佳奈、呆然としている。ユウは辺りを見回して、

「しっかし、さみーな。スウェット一枚とか、やばいわ」

「もう」可奈、自分のコートを脱いで、ユウにかける。

「ありがと」

「この時期、風邪ひいたら、大学、落ちるかもよ？」

ユウ、口元に軽い笑みを浮かべ、

「可奈、オレは絶対に落ちない。絶対にオレはマーチへ行く。そもそも風邪をビビるぐらいならここに来ねーわ」

　可奈、ゆっくり近づき頬をユウの胸に寄せる。ユウに聞こえるか聞こえないかぐらいで、小さく、バカ、と呟く。

　ユウ、佳奈の耳元に囁く。

「もしも、マーチ、落ちたら、いっしょにずっと落ちてくれるか？」

佳奈、真剣な目でユウを見上げ、小さく頷き返し、目を閉じる。

ユウ、少し膝を落として、唇を重ねる。

 

== 翌日　12月25日 ==

 

可奈からLINE

ー　ユウ、バスケ部のキャプテン、佐々木って知ってる？

ー　知ってるよ、どうした？

ー　昨日、彼女とわかれたんだって。クリスマスイブに。かなり真剣だよね。

ー　それが？

ー　わたしと付き合いたいって。

ー　はぁ？　で、おまえ、なんて答えたの？

ー　そこで相談。ユウ、どうしようか？

ー　おーいっ！　

  

【サウンドトラック】

４月にだって雪はフルっ！　ー 偏差値３５からのマーチ ー　　（勝手にサントラ:)編集中

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+++ DISCLAIMER +++

Nothing you see here is real, even though the model, the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!

  

Some background:

The Georgian Air Force and Air Defense Division (თავდაცვის ძალების ავიაციისა და საჰაერო თავდაცვის სარდლობა; tavdatsvis dzalebis aviatsiisa da sahaero tavdatsvis sardloba) was established on January 1, 1992, and in September the Georgian Air Force conducted its first combat flight during the separatist war in Abkhazia. On August 18, 1998, the two divisions were unified in a joint command structure and renamed the Georgian Air Force.

In 2010, the Georgian Air Force was abolished as a separate branch and incorporated into the Georgian Land Forces as Air and Air Defense sections. By that time, the equipment – primarily consisting of Eastern Bloc aircraft inherited from the Soviet Union after the country’s dissolution – was totally outdated, the most potent aircraft were a dozen Suchoj Su-25 attack aircraft and a handful of MiG-21U trainers.

 

In order to rejuvenate the air arm, Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing (TAM), also known as JSC Tbilaviamsheni and formerly known as 31st aviation factory, started a modernization program for the Su-25, for the domestic forces but also for export customers. TAM had a long tradition of aircraft production within the Soviet Union. In the 1950s the factory started the production of Mikoyan's MiG-15 and later, the MiG-17 fighter aircraft. In 1957 Tbilisi Aircraft State Association built the MiG-21 two-seater fighter-trainer aircraft and its various derivative aircraft, continuing the MiG-21 production for about 25 years. At the same time the company was manufacturing the K-10 air-to-surface guided missile. Furthermore, the first Sukhoi Su-25 (known in the West as the "Frogfoot") close support aircraft took its maiden voyage from the runway of 31st aviation factory. Since then, more than 800 SU-25s had been delivered to customers worldwide. From the first SU-25 to the 1990s, JSC Tbilaviamsheni was the only manufacturer of this aircraft, and even after the fall of the Soviet Union the production lines were still intact and spares for more than fifty complete aircraft available. Along with the SU-25 aircraft 31st aviation factory also launched large-scale production of air-to-air R-60 and R-73 IR guided missiles, a production effort that built over 6,000 missiles a year and that lasted until the early 1990s. From 1996 to 1998 the factory also produced Su-25U two-seaters.

 

In 2001 the factory started, in partnership with Elbit Systems of Israel, upgrading basic Su-25 airframes to the Su-25KM “Scorpion” variant. This was just a technical update, however, intended for former Su-25 export customers who would upgrade their less potent Su-25K export aircraft with modern avionics. The prototype aircraft made its maiden flight on 18 April 2001 at Tbilisi in full Georgian Air Force markings. The aircraft used a standard Su-25 airframe, enhanced with advanced avionics including a glass cockpit, digital map generator, helmet-mounted display, computerized weapons system, complete mission pre-plan capability, and fully redundant backup modes. Performance enhancements included a highly accurate navigation system, pinpoint weapon delivery systems, all-weather and day/night performance, NATO compatibility, state-of-the art safety and survivability features, and advanced onboard debriefing capabilities complying with international requirements. The Su-25KM had the ability to use NATO-standard Mark 82 and Mark 83 laser-guided bombs and new air-to-air missiles, the short-range Vympel R-73. This upgrade extended service life of the Su-25 airframes for another decade.

There were, however, not many customers. Manufacturing was eventually stopped at the end of 2010, after Georgian air forces have been permanently dismissed and abolished. By that time, approximately 12 Scorpions had been produced, but the Georgian Air Force still used the basic models of Su-25 because of high cost of Su-25KM and because it was destined mainly for export. According to unofficial sources several Scorpions had been transferred to Turkmenistan as part of a trade deal.

 

In the meantime, another, more ambitious project took shape at Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing, too: With the help of Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) the company started the development of a completely new attack aircraft, the TAM-1 “Gvelgeslas” (გველგესლას, Viper). It heavily relied on the year-long experience gathered with Su-25 production at Tblisi and on the tools at hand, but it was eventually a completely new aircraft – looking like a crossbreed between the Su-25 and the American A-10 with a T-tail.

 

This new layout had become necessary because the aircraft was to be powered by more modern, less noisy and more fuel-efficient Rolls Royce AE 3012 turbofan engines - which were originally intended to power the stillborn Yakovlev Yak-77 twin-engine business jet for up to 32 passengers, a slightly derated variant of the GMA 3012 with a 44 in diameter (112 cm) fan and procured via IAI from the United States through the company’s connection with Gulfstream Aerospace. Their larger diameter (the Su-25’s original Soyuz/Tumansky R-195 turbojets had a diameter of 109,5 cm/43.1 in) precluded the use of the former integral engine nacelles along the fuselage. To keep good ground clearance against FOD and to protect them from small arms fire, the engine layout was completely re-arranged. The fuselage was streamlined, and its internal structure was totally changed. The wings moved into a low position. The wings’ planform was almost identical to the Su-25’s, together with the characteristic tip-mounted “crocodile” air brakes. Just the leading edge inside of the “dogteeth” and the wing roots were re-designed, the latter because of the missing former engine nacelles. This resulted in a slightly increased net area, the original wingspan was retained. The bigger turbofans were then mounted in separate pods on short pylons along the rear fuselage, partly protected from below by the wings. Due to the jet efflux and the engines’ proximity to the stabilizers, these were re-located to the top of a deeper, reinforced fin for a T-tail arrangement.

 

Since the Su-25’s engine bays were now gone, the main landing gear had to be completely re-designed. Retracting them into the fuselage or into the relatively thin wings was not possible, TAM engineers settled upon a design that was very similar to the A-10: the aircraft received streamlined fairings, attached to the wings’ main spar, and positioned under the wings’ leading edges. The main legs were only semi-retractable; in flight, the wheels partly protruded from the fairings, but that hardly mattered from an aerodynamic point of view at the TAM-1’s subsonic operational speed. As a bonus they could still be used while retracted during emergency landings, improving the aircraft’s crash survivability.

 

Most flight and weapon avionics were procured from or via Elbit, including the Su-25KT’s modernized “glass cockpit”, and the TAM-1’s NATO compatibility was enhanced to appeal to a wider international export market. Beyond a total of eleven hardpoints under the wings and the fuselage for an external ordnance of up to 4.500 kg (9.900 lb), the TAM-1 was furthermore armed with an internal gun. Due to procurement issues, however, the Su-25’s original twin-barrel GSh-30-2 was replaced with an Oerlikon KDA 35mm cannon – a modern variant of the same cannon used in the German Gepard anti-aircraft tank, adapted to the use in an aircraft with a light-weight gun carriage. The KDA gun fired with a muzzle velocity of 1,440 m/s (4,700 ft/s) and a range of 5.500m, its rate of fire was typically 550 RPM. For the TAM-1, a unique feature from the SPAAG installation was adopted: the gun had two magazines, one with space for 200 rounds and another, smaller one for 50. The magazines could be filled with different types of ammunition, and the pilot was able select between them with a simple switch, adapting to the combat situation. Typical ammunition types were armor-piercing FAPDS rounds against hardened ground targets like tanks, and high explosive shells against soft ground targets and aircraft or helicopters, in a 3:1 ratio. Other ammunition types were available, too, and only 200 rounds were typically carried for balance reasons.

 

The TAM-1’s avionics included a SAGEM ULISS 81 INS, a Thomson-CSF VE-110 HUD, a TMV630 laser rangefinder in a modified nose and a TRT AHV 9 radio altimeter, with all avionics linked through a digital MIL-STD-1553B data bus and a modern “glass cockpit”. A HUD was standard, but an Elbit Systems DASH III HMD could be used by the pilot, too. The DASH GEN III was a wholly embedded design, closely integrated with the aircraft's weapon system, where the complete optical and position sensing coil package was built within the helmet (either the USAF standard HGU-55/P or the Israeli standard HGU-22/P), using a spherical visor to provide a collimated image to the pilot. A quick-disconnect wire powered the display and carried video drive signals to the helmet's Cathode Ray Tube (CRT).

 

The TAM-1’s development was long and protracted, though, primarily due to lack of resources and the fact that the Georgian air force was in an almost comatose state for several years, so that the potential prime customer for the TAM-1 was not officially available. However, the first TAM-1 prototype eventually made its maiden flight in September 2017. This was just in time, because the Georgian Air Force had formally been re-established in 2016, with plans for a major modernization and procurement program. Under the leadership of Georgian Minister of Defense Irakli Garibashvili the Air Force was re-prioritized and aircraft owned by the Georgian Air Force were being modernized and re-serviced after they were left abandoned for 4 years. This program lasted until 2020. In order to become more independent from foreign sources and support its domestic aircraft industry, the Georgian Air Force eventually ordered eight TAM-1s as Su-25K replacements, which would operate alongside a handful of modernized Su-25KMs from national stock. In the meantime, the new type also attained interest from abroad, e. g. from Bulgaria, the Congo and Cyprus. The IDF thoroughly tested two early production TAM-1s of the Georgian Air Force in 2018, too.

  

General characteristics:

Crew: 1

Length: 15.53 m (50 ft 11 in), including pitot

Wingspan: 14.36 m (47 ft 1 in)

Height: 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in)

Wing area: 35.2 m² (378 sq ft)

Empty weight: 9,800 kg (21,605 lb)

Gross weight: 14,440 kg (31,835 lb)

Max takeoff weight: 19,300 kg (42,549 lb)

 

Powerplant:

2× Rolls-Royce AE 3012 turbofans with 44.1 kN (9,920 lbf) thrust each

 

Performance:

Maximum speed: 975 km/h (606 mph, 526 kn, Mach 0.79)

Range: 1.000 km (620 mi, 540 nmi) with internal fuel, clean

Combat range: 750 km (470 mi, 400 nmi) at sea level with 4.500 kg (9,911 lb) of ordnance,

incl. two external fuel tanks

Service ceiling: 7.800 m (25,550 ft)

g limits: +6.5

Rate of climb: 58 m/s (11,400 ft/min)

 

Armament:

1× 35 mm (1.38 in) Oerlikon KDA cannon with 200 rds in two magazines

under the lower forward fuselage, offset to port side.

11× hardpoints with a capacity of up to 4.500 kg (9,911 lb) of external stores

  

The kit and its assembly:

This rather rigorous conversion had been on my project list for many years, and with the “Gunships” group build at whatifmodellers.com in late 2021 I eventually gathered my mojo to tackle it. The ingredients had already been procured long ago, but there are ideas that make you think twice before you take action…

 

This build was somewhat inspired by a CG rendition of a modified Su-25 that I came across while doing online search for potential ideas, running under the moniker “Su-125”, apparently created by someone called “Bispro” and published at DeviantArt in 2010; check this: (www.deviantart.com/bispro/art/Sukhoi-Su-125-Foghorn-15043...). The rendition shows a Su-25 with its engines re-located to the rear fuselage in separate nacelles, much like an A-10, plus a T-tail. However, as many photoshopped aircraft, the shown concept had IMHO some flaws. Where would a landing gear go, as the Su-125 still had shoulder wings? The engines’ position and size also looked fishy to me, quite small/narrow and very far high and back – I had doubts concerning the center of gravity. Nevertheless, I liked the idea, and the idea of an “A-10-esque remix” of the classic Frogfoot was born.

 

This idea was fueled even further when I found out that the Hobbycraft kit lends itself to such a conversion. The kit itself is not a brilliant Su-25 rendition, there are certainly better models of the aircraft in 1:72. However, what spoke for the kit as whiffing fodder was/is the fact that it is quite cheap (righteously so!) and AFAIK the only offering that comes with separate engine nacelles. These are attached to a completely independent central fuselage, and this avoids massive bodywork that would be necessary (if possible at all) with more conventional kits of this aircraft.

Another beneficial design feature is that the wing roots are an integral part of the original engine nacelles, forming their top side up to the fuselage spine. Through this, the original wingspan could be retained even without the nacelles, no wing extension would be necessary to retain the original proportions.

 

Work started with the central fuselage and the cockpit tub, which received a different (better) armored ejection seat and a pilot figure; the canopy remained unmodified and closed, because representing the model with an open cockpit would have required additional major body work on the spinal area behind the canopy. Inside, a new dashboard (from an Italeri BAe Hawk) was added, too – the original instrument panel is just a flat front bulkhead, there’s no space for the pilot to place the legs underneath the dashboard!

 

In parallel, the fin underwent major surgery. I initially considered an A-10-ish twin tail, but the Su-25’s high “tail stinger” prevented its implementation: the jet efflux would come very close to the tail surfaces. So, I went for something similar to the “Su-125” layout.

Mounting the OOB stabilizers to the fin was challenging, though. The fin lost its di-electric tip fairing, and it was cut into two sections, so that the tip would become long enough to match the stabilizers. A lucky find in the scrap box was a leftover tail tip from a Matchbox Blackburn Buccaneer, already shortened from a former, stillborn project: it had now the perfect length to take the Su-25 stabilizers! To make it fit on the fin, an 8mm deep section was inserted, in the form of a simple 1.5mm styrene sheet strip. Once dry, the surface was re-built with several PSR layers. Since it would sit further back on the new aircraft’s tail, the stinger with a RHAWS sensor was shortened.

 

On the fuselage, the attachment points for the wings and the engine nacelles were PSRed away and the front section filled with lots of lead beads, hoping that it would be enough to keep the model’s nose down.

 

Even though the wings had a proper span for a re-location into a low position, they still needed some attention: at the roots, there’s a ~1cm wide section without sweep (the area which would normally cover the original engine nacelles’ tops). This was mended through triangular 1.5 mm styrene wedges that extended the leading-edge sweep, roughly cut into shape once attached and later PSRed into the wings’ surfaces

 

The next construction site were the new landing gear attachment points. This had caused some serious headaches – where do you place and stow it? With new, low wings settled, the wings were the only logical place. But the wings were too thin to suitably take the retracted wheels, and, following the idea of a retrofitted existing design, I decided to adopt the A-10’s solution of nacelles into which the landing gear retracts forward, with the wheels still partly showing. This layout option appears quite plausible, since it would be a “graft-on” solution, and it also has the benefit of leaving lots of space for underwing stores, since the hardpoints’ position had to be modified now, too.

I was lucky to have a pair of A-10 landing gear nacelles at hand, left over from a wrecked Matchbox model from childhood time (the parts are probably 35 years old!). They were simply cut out, glued to the Su-25 wings and PSRed into shape. The result looked really good!

 

At this point I had to decide the model’s overall layout – where to place the wings, the tail and the new engine nacelles. The latter were not 1:72 A-10 transplants. I had some spare engine pods from the aforementioned Matchbox wreck, but these looked too rough and toylike for my taste. They were furthermore too bulky for the Su-25, which is markedly smaller than an A-10, so I had to look elsewhere. As a neat alternative for this project, I had already procured many moons ago a set of 1:144 resin PS-90A engines from a Russian company called “A.M.U.R. Reaver”, originally intended for a Tu-204 airliner or an Il-76 transport aircraft. These turbofan nacelles not only look very much like A-10 nacelles, just a bit smaller and more elegant, they are among the best resin aftermarket parts I have ever encountered: almost no flash, crisp molding, no bubbles, and perfect fit of the parts – WOW!

With these three elements at hand I was able to define the wings’ position, based on the tail, and from that the nacelles’ location, relative to the wings and the fin.

 

The next challenge: how to attach the new engines to the fuselage? The PS-90A engines came without pylons, so I had to improvise. I eventually found suitable pylons in the form of parts from F-14A underwing missile pylons, left over from an Italeri kit. Some major tailoring was necessary to find a proper position on the nacelles and on the fuselage, and PSRing these parts turned out to be quite difficult because of the tight and labyrinthine space.

 

When the engines were in place, work shifted towards the model’s underside. The landing gear was fully replaced. I initially wanted to retain the front wheel leg and the main wheels but found that the low wings would not allow a good ground clearance for underwing stores and re-arming the aircraft, a slightly taller solution was necessary. I eventually found a complete landing gear set in the scrap box, even though I am not certain to which aircraft it once belonged? I guess that the front wheel came from a Hasegawa RA-5C Vigilante, while the main gear and the wheels once belonged to an Italeri F-14A, alle struts were slightly shortened. The resulting stance is still a bit stalky, but an A-10 is also quite tall – this is just not so obvious because of the aircraft’s sheer size.

 

Due to the low wings and the landing gear pods, the Su-25’s hardpoints had to be re-arranged, and this eventually led to a layout very similar to the A-10. I gave the aircraft a pair of pylons inside of the pods, plus three hardpoints under the fuselage, even though all of these would only be used when slim ordnance was carried. I just fitted the outer pair. Outside of the landing gear fairings there would have been enough space for the Frogfoot’s original four outer for pylons, but I found this to be a little too much. So I gave it “just” three, with more space between them.

The respective ordnance is a mix for a CAS mission with dedicated and occasional targets. It consists of:

- Drop tanks under the inner wings (left over from a Bilek Su-17/22 kit)

- A pair of B-8M1 FFAR pods under the fuselage (from a vintage Mastercraft USSR weapon set)

- Two MERs with four 200 kg bombs each, mounted on the pylons outside of the landing gear (the odd MERs came from a Special Hobby IDF SMB-2 Super Mystère kit, the bombs are actually 1:100 USAF 750 lb bombs from a Tamiya F-105 Thunderchief in that scale)

- Four CBU-100 Rockeye Mk. II cluster bombs on the outer stations (from two Italeri USA/NATO weapon sets, each only offers a pair of these)

Yes, it’s a mix of Russian and NATO ordnance – but, like the real Georgian Su-25KM “Scorpion” upgrade, the TAM-1 would certainly be able to carry the same or even a wider mix, thanks to modified bomb racks and wirings. Esp. “dumb” weapons, which do not call for special targeting and guidance avionics, are qualified.

The gun under the nose was replaced with a piece from a hollow steel needle.

  

Painting and markings:

Nothing unusual here. I considered some more “exotic” options, but eventually settled for a “conservative” Soviet/Russian-style four-tone tactical camouflage, something that “normal” Su-25s would carry, too.

The disruptive pattern was adapted from a Macedonian Frogfoot but underwent some changes due to the T-tail and the engine nacelles. The basic tones were Humbrol 119 (RAF Light Earth), 150 (Forest Green), 195 (Chrome Oxide Green, RAL 6020) and 98 (Chocolate) on the upper surfaces and RLM78 from (Modelmaster #2087) from below, with a relatively low waterline, due to the low-set wings.

As usual, the model received a light black ink washing and some post-shading – especially on the hull and on the fin, where many details had either disappeared under PSR or were simply not there at all.

 

The landing gear and the lower areas of the cockpit were painted in light grey (Humbrol 64), while the upper cockpit sections were painted with bright turquoise (Modelmaster #2135). The wheel hubs were painted in bright green (Humbrol 101), while some di-electric fairings received a slightly less intense tone (Humbrol 2). A few of these flat fairings on the hull were furthermore created with green decal sheet material (from TL Modellbau) to avoid masking and corrections with paint.

 

The tactical markings became minimal, matching the look of late Georgian Su-25s. The roundels came from a Balkan Models Frogfoot sheet. The “07” was taken from a Blue Rider decal sheet, it actually belongs to a Lithuanian An-2. Some white stencils from generic MiG-21 and Mi-8 Begemot sheets were added, too, and some small markings were just painted onto the hull with yellow.

 

Some soot stains around the jet nozzles and the gun were added with graphite, and finally the kit was sealed with a coat of matt acrylic varnish.

  

A major bodywork project – and it’s weird that this is basically just a conversion of a stock kit and no kitbashing. A true Frogfoot remix! The new engines were the biggest “outsourced” addition, the A-10 landing gear fairings were a lucky find in the scrap box, and the rest is quite generic and could have looked differently. The result is impressive and balanced, though, the fictional TAM-1 looks quite plausible. The landing gear turned out to be a bit tall and stalky, though, making the aircraft look smaller on the ground than it actually is – but I left it that way.

Biennalist :

Biennalist is an Art Format commenting on active biennials and managed cultural events through artworks.Biennalist takes the thematics of the biennales and similar events like festivals and conferences seriously, questioning the established structures of the staged art events in order to contribute to the debate, which they wish to generate.

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links about Biennalist :

 

Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Geoffroy

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Room_(art)

 

www.emergencyrooms.org/formats.html

 

www.colonel.dk/

 

—--Biennale from wikipedia —--

 

The Venice International Film Festival is part of the Venice Biennale. The famous Golden Lion is awarded to the best film screening at the competition.

Biennale (Italian: [bi.enˈnaːle]), Italian for "biennial" or "every other year", is any event that happens every two years. It is most commonly used within the art world to describe large-scale international contemporary art exhibitions. As such the term was popularised by Venice Biennale, which was first held in 1895. Since the 1990s, the terms "biennale" and "biennial" have been interchangeably used in a more generic way - to signify a large-scale international survey show of contemporary art that recurs at regular intervals but not necessarily biannual (such as triennials, Documenta, Skulptur Projekte Münster).[1] The phrase has also been used for other artistic events, such as the "Biennale de Paris", "Kochi-Muziris Biennale", Berlinale (for the Berlin International Film Festival) and Viennale (for Vienna's international film festival).

Characteristics[edit]

According to author Federica Martini, what is at stake in contemporary biennales is the diplomatic/international relations potential as well as urban regeneration plans. Besides being mainly focused on the present (the “here and now” where the cultural event takes place and their effect of "spectacularisation of the everyday"), because of their site-specificity cultural events may refer back to,[who?] produce or frame the history of the site and communities' collective memory.[2]

 

The Great Exhibition in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, in 1851, the first attempt to condense the representation of the world within a unitary exhibition space.

A strong and influent symbol of biennales and of large-scale international exhibitions in general is the Crystal Palace, the gigantic and futuristic London architecture that hosted the Great Exhibition in 1851. According to philosopher Peter Sloterdijk,[3][page needed] the Crystal Palace is the first attempt to condense the representation of the world in a unitary exhibition space, where the main exhibit is society itself in an a-historical, spectacular condition. The Crystal Palace main motives were the affirmation of British economic and national leadership and the creation of moments of spectacle. In this respect, 19th century World fairs provided a visual crystallization of colonial culture and were, at the same time, forerunners of contemporary theme parks.

The Venice Biennale as an archetype[edit]

 

The structure of the Venice Biennale in 2005 with an international exhibition and the national pavilions.

The Venice Biennale, a periodical large-scale cultural event founded in 1895, served as an archetype of the biennales. Meant to become a World Fair focused on contemporary art, the Venice Biennale used as a pretext the wedding anniversary of the Italian king and followed up to several national exhibitions organised after Italy unification in 1861. The Biennale immediately put forth issues of city marketing, cultural tourism and urban regeneration, as it was meant to reposition Venice on the international cultural map after the crisis due to the end of the Grand Tour model and the weakening of the Venetian school of painting. Furthermore, the Gardens where the Biennale takes place were an abandoned city area that needed to be re-functionalised. In cultural terms, the Biennale was meant to provide on a biennial basis a platform for discussing contemporary art practices that were not represented in fine arts museums at the time. The early Biennale model already included some key points that are still constitutive of large-scale international art exhibitions today: a mix of city marketing, internationalism, gentrification issues and destination culture, and the spectacular, large scale of the event.

Biennials after the 1990s[edit]

The situation of biennials has changed in the contemporary context: while at its origin in 1895 Venice was a unique cultural event, but since the 1990s hundreds of biennials have been organized across the globe. Given the ephemeral and irregular nature of some biennials, there is little consensus on the exact number of biennials in existence at any given time.[citation needed] Furthermore, while Venice was a unique agent in the presentation of contemporary art, since the 1960s several museums devoted to contemporary art are exhibiting the contemporary scene on a regular basis. Another point of difference concerns 19th century internationalism in the arts, that was brought into question by post-colonial debates and criticism of the contemporary art “ethnic marketing”, and also challenged the Venetian and World Fair’s national representation system. As a consequence of this, Eurocentric tendency to implode the whole word in an exhibition space, which characterises both the Crystal Palace and the Venice Biennale, is affected by the expansion of the artistic geographical map to scenes traditionally considered as marginal. The birth of the Havana Biennial in 1984 is widely considered an important counterpoint to the Venetian model for its prioritization of artists working in the Global South and curatorial rejection of the national pavilion model.

International biennales[edit]

In the term's most commonly used context of major recurrent art exhibitions:

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, South Australia

Asian Art Biennale, in Taichung, Taiwan (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts)

Athens Biennale, in Athens, Greece

Bienal de Arte Paiz, in Guatemala City, Guatemala[4]

Arts in Marrakech (AiM) International Biennale (Arts in Marrakech Festival)

Bamako Encounters, a biennale of photography in Mali

Bat-Yam International Biennale of Landscape Urbanism

Beijing Biennale

Berlin Biennale (contemporary art biennale, to be distinguished from Berlinale, which is a film festival)

Bergen Assembly (triennial for contemporary art in Bergen, Norway)www.bergenassembly.no

Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, China

Bienal de Arte de Ponce in Ponce, Puerto Rico

Biënnale van België, Biennial of Belgium, Belgium

BiennaleOnline Online biennial exhibition of contemporary art from the most promising emerging artists.

Biennial of Hawaii Artists

Biennale de la Biche, the smallest biennale in the world held at deserted island near Guadeloupe, French overseas region[5][6]

Biwako Biennale [ja], in Shiga, Japan

La Biennale de Montreal

Biennale of Luanda : Pan-African Forum for the Culture of Peace,[7] Angola

Boom Festival, international music and culture festival in Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal

Bucharest Biennale in Bucharest, Romania

Bushwick Biennial, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

Canakkale Biennial, in Canakkale, Turkey

Cerveira International Art Biennial, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal [8]

Changwon Sculpture Biennale in Changwon, South Korea

Dakar Biennale, also called Dak'Art, biennale in Dakar, Senegal

Documenta, contemporary art exhibition held every five years in Kassel, Germany

Estuaire (biennale), biennale in Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, France

EVA International, biennial in Limerick, Republic of Ireland

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, in Gothenburg, Sweden[9]

Greater Taipei Contemporary Art Biennial, in Taipei, Taiwan

Gwangju Biennale, Asia's first and most prestigious contemporary art biennale

Havana biennial, in Havana, Cuba

Helsinki Biennial, in Helsinki, Finland

Herzliya Biennial For Contemporary Art, in Herzliya, Israel

Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, in Incheon, South Korea

Iowa Biennial, in Iowa, USA

Istanbul Biennial, in Istanbul, Turkey

International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, in Tehran and Istanbul

Jakarta Biennale, in Jakarta, Indonesia

Jerusalem Biennale, in Jerusalem, Israel

Jogja Biennale, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Karachi Biennale, in Karachi, Pakistan

Keelung Harbor Biennale, in Keelung, Taiwan

Kochi-Muziris Biennale, largest art exhibition in India, in Kochi, Kerala, India

Kortrijk Design Biennale Interieur, in Kortrijk, Belgium

Kobe Biennale, in Japan

Kuandu Biennale, in Taipei, Taiwan

Lagos Biennial, in Lagos, Nigeria[10]

Light Art Biennale Austria, in Austria

Liverpool Biennial, in Liverpool, UK

Lofoten International Art Festival [no] (LIAF), on the Lofoten archipelago, Norway[11]

Manifesta, European Biennale of contemporary art in different European cities

Mediations Biennale, in Poznań, Poland

Melbourne International Biennial 1999

Mediterranean Biennale in Sakhnin 2013

MOMENTA Biennale de l'image [fr] (formerly known as Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal), in Montreal, Canada

MOMENTUM [no], in Moss, Norway[12]

Moscow Biennale, in Moscow, Russia

Munich Biennale, new opera and music-theatre in even-numbered years

Mykonos Biennale

Nakanojo Biennale[13]

NGV Triennial, contemporary art exhibition held every three years at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

October Salon – Belgrade Biennale [sr], organised by the Cultural Center of Belgrade [sr], in Belgrade, Serbia[14]

OSTEN Biennial of Drawing Skopje, North Macedonia[15]

Biennale de Paris

Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA), in Riga, Latvia[16]

São Paulo Art Biennial, in São Paulo, Brazil

SCAPE Public Art Christchurch Biennial in Christchurch, New Zealand[17]

Prospect New Orleans

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

Sequences, in Reykjavík, Iceland[18]

Shanghai Biennale

Sharjah Biennale, in Sharjah, UAE

Singapore Biennale, held in various locations across the city-state island of Singapore

Screen City Biennial, in Stavanger, Norway

Biennale of Sydney

Taipei Biennale, in Taipei, Taiwan

Taiwan Arts Biennale, in Taichung, Taiwan (National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts)

Taiwan Film Biennale, in Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art [el], in Thessaloniki, Greece[19]

Dream city, produced by ART Rue Association in Tunisia

Vancouver Biennale

Visayas Islands Visual Arts Exhibition and Conference (VIVA ExCon) in the Philippines [20]

Venice Biennale, in Venice, Italy, which includes:

Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art

Venice Biennale of Architecture

Venice Film Festival

Vladivostok biennale of Visual Arts, in Vladivostok, Russia

Whitney Biennial, hosted by the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, NY, USA

Web Biennial, produced with teams from Athens, Berlin and Istanbul.

West Africa Architecture Biennale,[21] Virtual in Lagos, Nigeria.

WRO Biennale, in Wrocław, Poland[22]

Music Biennale Zagreb

[SHIFT:ibpcpa] The International Biennale of Performance, Collaborative and Participatory Arts, Nomadic, International, Scotland, UK.

 

—---Venice Biennale from wikipedia —

 

The Venice Biennale (/ˌbiːɛˈnɑːleɪ, -li/; Italian: La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation.[2][3][4] The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of its kind. The main exhibition held in Castello, in the halls of the Arsenale and Biennale Gardens, alternates between art and architecture (hence the name biennale; biennial).[5][6][7] The other events hosted by the Foundation—spanning theatre, music, and dance—are held annually in various parts of Venice, whereas the Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido.[8]

Organization[edit]

Art Biennale

Art Biennale

International Art Exhibition

1895

Even-numbered years (since 2022)

Venice Biennale of Architecture

International Architecture Exhibition

1980

Odd-numbered years (since 2021)

Biennale Musica

International Festival of Contemporary Music

1930

Annually (Sep/Oct)

Biennale Teatro

International Theatre Festival

1934

Annually (Jul/Aug)

Venice Film Festival

Venice International Film Festival

1932

Annually (Aug/Sep)

Venice Dance Biennale

International Festival of Contemporary Dance

1999

Annually (June; biennially 2010–16)

  

International Kids' Carnival

2009

Annually (during Carnevale)

  

History

1895–1947

On April 19, 1893, the Venetian City Council passed a resolution to set up an biennial exhibition of Italian Art ("Esposizione biennale artistica nazionale") to celebrate the silver anniversary of King Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy.[11]

A year later, the council decreed "to adopt a 'by invitation' system; to reserve a section of the Exhibition for foreign artists too; to admit works by uninvited Italian artists, as selected by a jury."[12]

The first Biennale, "I Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Città di Venezia (1st International Art Exhibition of the City of Venice)" (although originally scheduled for April 22, 1894) was opened on April 30, 1895, by the Italian King and Queen, Umberto I and Margherita di Savoia. The first exhibition was seen by 224,000 visitors.

The event became increasingly international in the first decades of the 20th century: from 1907 on, several countries installed national pavilions at the exhibition, with the first being from Belgium. In 1910 the first internationally well-known artists were displayed: a room dedicated to Gustav Klimt, a one-man show for Renoir, a retrospective of Courbet. A work by Picasso "Family of Saltimbanques" was removed from the Spanish salon in the central Palazzo because it was feared that its novelty might shock the public. By 1914 seven pavilions had been established: Belgium (1907), Hungary (1909), Germany (1909), Great Britain (1909), France (1912), and Russia (1914).

During World War I, the 1916 and 1918 events were cancelled.[13] In 1920 the post of mayor of Venice and president of the Biennale was split. The new secretary general, Vittorio Pica brought about the first presence of avant-garde art, notably Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

1922 saw an exhibition of sculpture by African artists. Between the two World Wars, many important modern artists had their work exhibited there. In 1928 the Istituto Storico d'Arte Contemporanea (Historical Institute of Contemporary Art) opened, which was the first nucleus of archival collections of the Biennale. In 1930 its name was changed into Historical Archive of Contemporary Art.

In 1930, the Biennale was transformed into an Ente Autonomo (Autonomous Board) by Royal Decree with law no. 33 of 13-1-1930. Subsequently, the control of the Biennale passed from the Venice city council to the national Fascist government under Benito Mussolini. This brought on a restructuring, an associated financial boost, as well as a new president, Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata. Three entirely new events were established, including the Biennale Musica in 1930, also referred to as International Festival of Contemporary Music; the Venice Film Festival in 1932, which they claim as the first film festival in history,[14] also referred to as Venice International Film Festival; and the Biennale Theatro in 1934, also referred to as International Theatre Festival.

In 1933 the Biennale organized an exhibition of Italian art abroad. From 1938, Grand Prizes were awarded in the art exhibition section.

During World War II, the activities of the Biennale were interrupted: 1942 saw the last edition of the events. The Film Festival restarted in 1946, the Music and Theatre festivals were resumed in 1947, and the Art Exhibition in 1948.[15]

1948–1973[edit]

The Art Biennale was resumed in 1948 with a major exhibition of a recapitulatory nature. The Secretary General, art historian Rodolfo Pallucchini, started with the Impressionists and many protagonists of contemporary art including Chagall, Klee, Braque, Delvaux, Ensor, and Magritte, as well as a retrospective of Picasso's work. Peggy Guggenheim was invited to exhibit her collection, later to be permanently housed at Ca' Venier dei Leoni.

1949 saw the beginning of renewed attention to avant-garde movements in European—and later worldwide—movements in contemporary art. Abstract expressionism was introduced in the 1950s, and the Biennale is credited with importing Pop Art into the canon of art history by awarding the top prize to Robert Rauschenberg in 1964.[16] From 1948 to 1972, Italian architect Carlo Scarpa did a series of remarkable interventions in the Biennale's exhibition spaces.

In 1954 the island San Giorgio Maggiore provided the venue for the first Japanese Noh theatre shows in Europe. 1956 saw the selection of films following an artistic selection and no longer based upon the designation of the participating country. The 1957 Golden Lion went to Satyajit Ray's Aparajito which introduced Indian cinema to the West.

1962 included Arte Informale at the Art Exhibition with Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Emilio Vedova, and Pietro Consagra. The 1964 Art Exhibition introduced continental Europe to Pop Art (The Independent Group had been founded in Britain in 1952). The American Robert Rauschenberg was the first American artist to win the Gran Premio, and the youngest to date.

The student protests of 1968 also marked a crisis for the Biennale. Student protests hindered the opening of the Biennale. A resulting period of institutional changes opened and ending with a new Statute in 1973. In 1969, following the protests, the Grand Prizes were abandoned. These resumed in 1980 for the Mostra del Cinema and in 1986 for the Art Exhibition.[17]

In 1972, for the first time, a theme was adopted by the Biennale, called "Opera o comportamento" ("Work or Behaviour").

Starting from 1973 the Music Festival was no longer held annually. During the year in which the Mostra del Cinema was not held, there was a series of "Giornate del cinema italiano" (Days of Italian Cinema) promoted by sectorial bodies in campo Santa Margherita, in Venice.[18]

1974–1998[edit]

1974 saw the start of the four-year presidency of Carlo Ripa di Meana. The International Art Exhibition was not held (until it was resumed in 1976). Theatre and cinema events were held in October 1974 and 1975 under the title Libertà per il Cile (Freedom for Chile)—a major cultural protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

On 15 November 1977, the so-called Dissident Biennale (in reference to the dissident movement in the USSR) opened. Because of the ensuing controversies within the Italian left wing parties, president Ripa di Meana resigned at the end of the year.[19]

In 1979 the new presidency of Giuseppe Galasso (1979-1982) began. The principle was laid down whereby each of the artistic sectors was to have a permanent director to organise its activity.

In 1980, the Architecture section of the Biennale was set up. The director, Paolo Portoghesi, opened the Corderie dell'Arsenale to the public for the first time. At the Mostra del Cinema, the awards were brought back into being (between 1969 and 1979, the editions were non-competitive). In 1980, Achille Bonito Oliva and Harald Szeemann introduced "Aperto", a section of the exhibition designed to explore emerging art. Italian art historian Giovanni Carandente directed the 1988 and 1990 editions. A three-year gap was left afterwards to make sure that the 1995 edition would coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Biennale.[13]

The 1993 edition was directed by Achille Bonito Oliva. In 1995, Jean Clair was appointed to be the Biennale's first non-Italian director of visual arts[20] while Germano Celant served as director in 1997.

For the Centenary in 1995, the Biennale promoted events in every sector of its activity: the 34th Festival del Teatro, the 46th art exhibition, the 46th Festival di Musica, the 52nd Mostra del Cinema.[21]

1999–present[edit]

In 1999 and 2001, Harald Szeemann directed two editions in a row (48th & 49th) bringing in a larger representation of artists from Asia and Eastern Europe and more young artists than usual and expanded the show into several newly restored spaces of the Arsenale.

In 1999 a new sector was created for live shows: DMT (Dance Music Theatre).

The 50th edition, 2003, directed by Francesco Bonami, had a record number of seven co-curators involved, including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Catherine David, Igor Zabel, Hou Hanru and Massimiliano Gioni.

The 51st edition of the Biennale opened in June 2005, curated, for the first time by two women, Maria de Corral and Rosa Martinez. De Corral organized "The Experience of Art" which included 41 artists, from past masters to younger figures. Rosa Martinez took over the Arsenale with "Always a Little Further." Drawing on "the myth of the romantic traveler" her exhibition involved 49 artists, ranging from the elegant to the profane.

In 2007, Robert Storr became the first director from the United States to curate the Biennale (the 52nd), with a show entitled Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense.

Swedish curator Daniel Birnbaum was artistic director of the 2009 edition entitled "Fare Mondi // Making Worlds".

The 2011 edition was curated by Swiss curator Bice Curiger entitled "ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations".

The Biennale in 2013 was curated by the Italian Massimiliano Gioni. His title and theme, Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace, was adopted from an architectural model by the self-taught Italian-American artist Marino Auriti. Auriti's work, The Encyclopedic Palace of the World was lent by the American Folk Art Museum and exhibited in the first room of the Arsenale for the duration of the biennale. For Gioni, Auriti's work, "meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite," provided an analogous figure for the "biennale model itself...based on the impossible desire to concentrate the infinite worlds of contemporary art in a single place: a task that now seems as dizzyingly absurd as Auriti's dream."[22]

Curator Okwui Enwezor was responsible for the 2015 edition.[23] He was the first African-born curator of the biennial. As a catalyst for imagining different ways of imagining multiple desires and futures Enwezor commissioned special projects and programs throughout the Biennale in the Giardini. This included a Creative Time Summit, e-flux journal's SUPERCOMMUNITY, Gulf Labor Coalition, The Invisible Borders Trans-African Project and Abounaddara.[24][25]

The 2017 Biennale, titled Viva Arte Viva, was directed by French curator Christine Macel who called it an "exhibition inspired by humanism".[26] German artist Franz Erhard Walter won the Golden Lion for best artist, while Carolee Schneemann was awarded a posthumous Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.[27]

The 2019 Biennale, titled May You Live In Interesting Times, was directed by American-born curator Ralph Rugoff.[28]

The 2022 edition was curated by Italian curator Cecilia Alemani entitled "The Milk of Dreams" after a book by British-born Mexican surrealist painter Leonora Carrington.[29]

The Biennale has an attendance today of over 500,000 visitors.[30][31][32]

Role in the art market[edit]

When the Venice Biennale was founded in 1895, one of its main goals was to establish a new market for contemporary art. Between 1942 and 1968 a sales office assisted artists in finding clients and selling their work,[33] a service for which it charged 10% commission. Sales remained an intrinsic part of the biennale until 1968, when a sales ban was enacted. An important practical reason why the focus on non-commodities has failed to decouple Venice from the market is that the biennale itself lacks the funds to produce, ship and install these large-scale works. Therefore, the financial involvement of dealers is widely regarded as indispensable;[16] as they regularly front the funding for production of ambitious projects.[34] Furthermore, every other year the Venice Biennale coincides with nearby Art Basel, the world's prime commercial fair for modern and contemporary art. Numerous galleries with artists on show in Venice usually bring work by the same artists to Basel.[35]

Central Pavilion and Arsenale[edit]

The formal Biennale is based at a park, the Giardini. The Giardini includes a large exhibition hall that houses a themed exhibition curated by the Biennale's director.

Initiated in 1980, the Aperto began as a fringe event for younger artists and artists of a national origin not represented by the permanent national pavilions. This is usually staged in the Arsenale and has become part of the formal biennale programme. In 1995 there was no Aperto so a number of participating countries hired venues to show exhibitions of emerging artists. From 1999, both the international exhibition and the Aperto were held as one exhibition, held both at the Central Pavilion and the Arsenale. Also in 1999, a $1 million renovation transformed the Arsenale area into a cluster of renovated shipyards, sheds and warehouses, more than doubling the Arsenale's exhibition space of previous years.[36]

A special edition of the 54th Biennale was held at Padiglione Italia of Torino Esposizioni – Sala Nervi (December 2011 – February 2012) for the 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification. The event was directed by Vittorio Sgarbi.[37]

National pavilions[edit]

Main article: National pavilions at the Venice Biennale

The Giardini houses 30 permanent national pavilions.[13] Alongside the Central Pavilion, built in 1894 and later restructured and extended several times, the Giardini are occupied by a further 29 pavilions built at different periods by the various countries participating in the Biennale. The first nation to build a pavilion was Belgium in 1907, followed by Germany, Britain and Hungary in 1909.[13] The pavilions are the property of the individual countries and are managed by their ministries of culture.[38]

Countries not owning a pavilion in the Giardini are exhibited in other venues across Venice. The number of countries represented is still growing. In 2005, China was showing for the first time, followed by the African Pavilion and Mexico (2007), the United Arab Emirates (2009), and India (2011).[39]

The assignment of the permanent pavilions was largely dictated by the international politics of the 1930s and the Cold War. There is no single format to how each country manages their pavilion, established and emerging countries represented at the biennial maintain and fund their pavilions in different ways.[38] While pavilions are usually government-funded, private money plays an increasingly large role; in 2015, the pavilions of Iraq, Ukraine and Syria were completely privately funded.[40] The pavilion for Great Britain is always managed by the British Council[41] while the United States assigns the responsibility to a public gallery chosen by the Department of State which, since 1985, has been the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.[42] The countries at the Arsenale that request a temporary exhibition space pay a hire fee per square meter.[38]

In 2011, the countries were Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia and Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Wales and Zimbabwe. In addition to this there are two collective pavilions: Central Asia Pavilion and Istituto Italo-Latino Americano. In 2013, eleven new participant countries developed national pavilions for the Biennale: Angola, Bosnia and Herzegowina, the Bahamas, Bahrain, the Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Paraguay, Tuvalu, and the Holy See. In 2015, five new participant countries developed pavilions for the Biennale: Grenada,[43] Republic of Mozambique, Republic of Seychelles, Mauritius and Mongolia. In 2017, three countries participated in the Art Biennale for the first time: Antigua & Barbuda, Kiribati, and Nigeria.[44] In 2019, four countries participated in the Art Biennale for the first time: Ghana, Madagascar, Malaysia, and Pakistan.[45]

As well as the national pavilions there are countless "unofficial pavilions"[46] that spring up every year. In 2009 there were pavilions such as the Gabon Pavilion and a Peckham pavilion. In 2017 The Diaspora Pavilion bought together 19 artists from complex, multinational backgrounds to challenge the prevalence of the nation state at the Biennale.[47]

The Internet Pavilion (Italian: Padiglione Internet) was founded in 2009 as a platform for activists and artists working in new media.[48][49][50] Subsequent editions were held since,[51] 2013,[51] in conjunction with the biennale.[52]

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Amtrak's Pennsylvanian makes its way across the Allegheny Mountains as it passes one of the many parked trains waiting for fresh crews and clearance past the derailment site at MP 240. NS was prioritizing Amtrak and intermodal trains since the mainline was reduced to 1 track and the continued sub-zero weather was continue to cause additional issues throughout the Keystone Division.

Canadians are often known for several positive characteristics, including:

1.Politeness and Courtesy – They have a reputation for being polite, saying “sorry” often, and treating others with respect.

2.Friendliness – Canadians are generally warm and welcoming to both locals and visitors.

3.Diversity and Inclusivity – Canada is multicultural, and its people embrace diversity in ethnicity, culture, and perspectives.

4.Tolerance and Open-Mindedness – Canadians tend to value human rights, equality, and progressive social policies.

5.Community-Oriented – Many Canadians are involved in their communities and prioritize social well-being.

6.Love for Nature and the Outdoors – With stunning landscapes, Canadians often appreciate and respect nature, engaging in outdoor activities like hiking, camping, and skiing.

7.Sense of Humor – They have a dry, self-deprecating, and sometimes quirky sense of humor.

8.Humble and Modest – Canadians tend to downplay achievements and avoid arrogance.

9.Hardworking and Resourceful – Whether in cities or remote regions, Canadians have a strong work ethic.

10.Peacefulness – They are generally non-confrontational and support diplomacy over aggression.

 

Thanks ChatGPT (prompt: tell me about Canadians)!

>///w///< Eee just finished his faceup last night and ahhh I'm so excited to have Shu as a doll again!! I just had to put him on a body and see him all together again!~ I blushed him to match my Unoa Sist, Phyre's, body for now because its the only peachy skin toned MSD body I have right now and i'm still in the process of working on Phyre so I figure while i'm sorting him out Shu can borrow his body temporarily. xD Its CERTAINLY not an appropriate body for Shu, but it works for the purpose of seeing him all together anyways.

 

*U* BUT ANYWAY, ASDFGH- I LOVE HIMMMM <3333 Ah, seriously, I just love him in this sculpt!! There are a few things i'll have to get used to and a few changes I'll make to his faceup whenever I decide to redo it, but gosh, the more I look at him the more I adore him. T///w///T He's just such a little ray of sunshine. Every time I see him I smile! This sculpt really captures so many facets of his character from his wide-eyed wonder, tender passion and eternal innocence. Don't get me wrong, I loved his old doll form too, but aside from being more childish and aesthetically different I also think that it didn't have as much depth and versatility in expression. It certainly captured his more pensive and anxious side which is a large part of his personality, but I think this version of him really highlights the more positive aspects of his character and I really do adore that <333

 

;__; The only thing is....I still don't know how I feel about him and Etzel yet. Ahh, its weird. When I got Euclid I felt an immediate love and connection between them and Faustus. The "chemistry" was there immediately in my own eyes, you know? But I didn't and still don't feel that same strong "chemistry" between Shu and Etzel as dolls and as silly as that might sound that is a huge problem for me. I think...i'm starting to realize that I judge my romantically involved characters in doll form heavily based on how similar their features are to one another. Like the size of their eyes, the length of their mouths etc. compared to one another. The more different they are in these aspects the less I seem to like the look of them together. On a realistic level i'm aware that is a weird thing to desire because in real life couples come in many shapes and sizes and often times people do not look very similar to their romantic counterparts. I imagine the main reason I feel this way is because I draw anime and i'm used to seeing my characters in a way that their features are not so exaggerated. Of course, they all have different facial features but they are much less emphasized. Seeing a more "realistic" and dramatic difference in facial features/proportions between my closely involved doll-characters just feels so...odd and off-putting to me. I think I'm realizing the reason why I like Faustus and Euclid together so much is because their faces are proportionately very similar while consistently Shu and Etzel's haven't been. So again...I think i'm in the same boat as I was last time with the two of them; I love them both separately but not together. ;_____; Dammit.

 

Anyway, tldnr, but I'm not sure what I want to do yet. I'm certainly going to give it a lot of time and thought before I make any sort of decision or possible changes as I really do absolutely adore both Etzel and Shu's current doll forms on their own. I do think that I'm going to prioritize getting both of their new bodies though as I think that will really help me to better visualize them more ideally and give me a better indication of exactly how I feel about them together. But for now i'm just in a really weird place in the doll world of feeling super happy and yet incredibly depressed at the same time, if that is even possible. ;__;

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Shu (boy) is a Soom OE Serin in "Cream" White skin. Color matching and faceup by me.

   

July 18, 2023 The Hill Live brings together caregivers, patients, clinical experts, and lawmakers to answer these questions and more as we discuss the fight against Alzheimer’s and breakthroughs in providing relief to those who suffer from agitation and aggression.

Alzheimer’s disease affects about 55 million people worldwide, including 6.5 million Americans, and has no cure. Some patients with Alzheimer’s sometimes show signs of extreme aggression or become restless and anxious as their brains lose the ability to negotiate with new stimulus.

 

Agitation is a common neuropsychiatric symptom in Alzheimer’s dementia and one of the most complex and stressful aspects of caring for people living with the condition. It is reported in approximately half of people with Alzheimer’s dementia and is associated with earlier alternative living placement.

 

What do patients, caregivers and families navigating the complexities of agitation associated with Alzheimer’s need to know? How are researchers and doctors better understanding risk factors and diagnoses? What policy actions can prioritize research, detection and treatment? And what are the access considerations for patients and their caregivers as they navigate this difficult symptom?

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🇬🇧Let’s not turn away in search of fairy-tale solutions or extravagant dreams, like a gleaming Ferrari or a magic pumpkin. Sometimes, we don’t need luxury; we just need reliability—like a car that gets us where we’re going, fuel-efficient and dependable. Instead of fixating on what we don’t have, let’s prioritize what truly matters.

 

🇮🇹Non voltiamoci dall'altra parte in cerca di soluzioni da favola o sogni stravaganti, come una Ferrari scintillante o una zucca magica. A volte non abbiamo bisogno del lusso; abbiamo solo bisogno di affidabilità, come un'auto che ci porta dove vogliamo andare, efficiente nei consumi e affidabile. Invece di fissarci su ciò che non abbiamo, diamo la priorità a ciò che conta davvero.

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"This is where the fun begins!"

 

My latest ship from the Prequel Trilogy has arrived, and it surely was a lot of fun to make: here's Obi Wan's Eta-2 Actis Interceptor from Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and The Clone Wars.

 

This small unit consists of 281 pieces (stand included), and has one major feature: true Minifig scale!

 

There's a handful of beautiful MOCs of this ship out there already, but most of them are based on the huge cockpit piece from the playsets, so they're drastically oversized. So here I am with a, dare I say, more accurately scaled version.

 

It does come with a drawback, you guessed it: you can't put a fig inside. A bit ironic I know, but I chose to go for a brick-built cockpit in order to get as close to the original design as I could, prioritizing accuracy over playability, as usual.

 

The wings were pretty challenging given the ridiculously small scale, and my goal was to have them as thin as possible without compromising the SNOT look.

 

I'm quite happy with the result and I think this makes a nice little display piece. It's also very swooshable despite the intricate wing design.

 

I'm usually not a fan of stickers, but I thought this one deserved some sweet markings. I used the sticker sheet from the playset - it is included in the parts list. The color scheme can be changed to red with only a few part swaps (see last page in the instructions).

 

► Instructions for the Eta-2 Actis Interceptor are available at Rebrickable!

Welcome aboard The Multidimensional Ship! Its observation deck is your entire perceptual reality. And it is now in motion. YOU are now in motion. If you only realized how fast you were going, you would probably feel a bit ill. In truth, many of you are currently experiencing signs and symptoms of what we call Global Acceleration Syndrome. We provide this title to honor your medical paradigm, even though it is not any kind of official medical diagnosis. Muscle aches and pains, lethargy, fatigue, spacey-ness, panic attacks, depression, insomnia, memory-loss, confusion---these are just a few of the uncomfortable side-effects produced by the incredible velocity at which you are traveling.

 

Your world appears to continue as it always has because YOUR MIND requires this in order to keep from flying apart. Your anxiety and hesitancies are the same feelings shared by those who sailed with Columbus. Bound for a new world, they trembled as they sailed, believing their world to be flat. Even so....... many of you also tremble---certain that you may "go over the edge" at any moment!

 

If you can receive assistance by a health care professional, and your inner guidance affirms this course of action, we encourage you to do so. However, if everything you try seems empty and useless......be strong! Be patient. Deliverance is soon at hand. The journey has begun, and there are wonders ahead, and beauty beyond imagining. The travails of childbirth are many, but the prize that follows far outweighs the pain. Believe this, receive it, and your anxious heart will slowly learn to find rest.

 

INSIDE THE SHIP

 

Spaceship Earth is a Holographic Being. Structurally, it is like a gift box that some imaginative person sends you for Christmas. When you remove the lid, you find a slightly smaller box, fully wrapped---just like the first one, containing another (even smaller) box, which contains yet another, and another, and another.........all the way down to your one-celled creatures. Each "level" of your Ship contains all of the basic elements of every other "level." Some of the features are minimized, in certain aspects, so that others can be maximized and focused upon. But it's all there! And it's all synchronized, like moving parts in a pocket watch. It all blends together beautifully.

 

You have been packing for this journey for quite sometime now. Around the planet there has formed a band of energy---several concentric bands, in fact. The one of which we speak is electromagnetic in nature. It contains diagrams, spreadsheets, poetry, tables of elements, fragments of speech, music, data, archives of human history, bits of TV shows, radio broadcasts, faxes, motion pictures, cell-phone conversations, digital art, and much more besides. When you prepared for this particular journey, you knew you had to pack LIGHT.......because you knew that was the only thing that could go! We are speaking here of your Earth Essence Timeless Capsule.

 

This "Level" of the Planetary Ship is connected to and modulated by sacred powerspots all over the planet. It is, literally, an ARC of Energy..........not unlike that other Ark which was built by Noah, so long ago. Within it, you have placed the best of you---your creations, your memories, your very lives! However, be advised. Entry onto The Arc is not made two-by-two. This "level" of the Oneself is leaving duality behind. Each individual must pass through what is called the "Eye of the Needle," as a Unified Oneself, in order to come aboard.

 

Meanwhile, back on the "hard deck," a good portion of humanity is determined to stay the course, fully in denial---apparently choosing to "play it cool" all the way through the Fourth Dimensional Corridor. Now *that* should make quite a picture, indeed.

 

But you, Dear Ones....... you need not suffer any longer with this illusion. Everything you have felt within---the many surges and flashes of energy up and down your spine---are quite real. They are transmutative jump-starts for new and important programs that have been installed in your consciousness. Soon, all your new perceptual software will come completely online. And then, the fun begins! A very wise man once said: "Don't compare your insides with other people's outsides." We underscore this message whole-heartedly. You are not crazy, and you are not falling apart. It just occasionally feels that way. In fact, you are really falling together! So let it be.

 

MORE ABOUT THE PORTALS

 

There is no one present upon Planet Earth at this time who is not regularly traversing Energy Gates and Portals. Some are very aware of it, and even relish the idea. Others are quite disturbed, because the experiences are not exactly what they had planned, or seem beyond their immediate understanding and control. Still others have found effective ways to insulate themselves almost entirely from this knowledge---which serves a purpose, albeit a temporary one. Soon all humanity will be speaking fluently about Trans-Portals, though they may be called by many names. Indeed, these Energy Gates will soon form a good deal of the conceptual framework for your upcoming human journey.

 

We are The Reconnections. We are all those parts of your Expanded Self which you had to forget about when you came into physical form. We've never been very far from you, just far enough. If there is something that you currently believe about yourself, we make up *everything else* that you could also believe. If there is something that you deny about yourself, we form a repository for that energy until you feel ready to take it up again. Endless variety, endless ability.........all neatly catalogued for your use at any time or place. If something is not present *within* you, then it is being stored here, *within* us. This is because, in Oneness, there really is no such thing as "out." All doorways are marked "enter," and all pathways lead directly home.

 

MEETING YOUR OPPOSITION

 

Before a person can successfully fight a battle, he must define who the enemy is. Though we have frequently reminded you that everything is a reflection of self, you must realize that there are aspects of that "self" that have been created to oppose you, as grounding elements, or for educational purposes. As you will see later in this transmission, identifying and meeting your opposition is crucial to your next levels of unfoldment.

 

Every birthing process involves both expansion and contraction. One part of the body pushes forward, while other parts resist. This is your dance of positive and negative energy. It is rapidly becoming impossible for a person to achieve enduring success without making contact with the "rest" of who he is. We are speaking now of the Multidimensional Self. There is much more to any situation than meets your physical eye. In truth, the puppets that currently dance in the theater of the physical are manipulated by strings being held by unseen hands. Every dance, every drama that is being enacted here, is designed to teach you more and more about those unseen forces.

 

Relationship conflicts, financial difficulties, and political upheavals are perfect venues for a reconnecting soul to learn how to identify with *all sides* of any question. It is only when you are able to lift yourself out of a polarized state, into The Oneself, that you become able to access the necessary elements which will turn the tide for whatever physical challenge that is before you.

 

Many people today are desperately looking for peace and safety. If something seems to be thwarting their goals, or irritating their status quo, they want to deal with it, so they can bring about a rapid resolution. They will choose to fight, or to negotiate---whichever seems most effective in the moment---and then they want to be able to return to "business as usual." But Friends, business can never be "usual" again. And any attempt on your parts to make it so will simply result in deeper and more complicated upheavals. The "box" in which you have all been living is being heated up from the outside. Aspects of your Expanded Self are stirring things up energetically so that you will be forced to look *outside of the physical world* in order to understand what has been creating your reality all along.

 

THE ASTRAL PLANE

 

Beyond the borders of your physical world, there are levels of consciousness that vibrate so rapidly that their purpose and presence often escapes the notice of those who are living and functioning in 3D. The Astral Plane contains beings that are either moving toward or away from physical density, yet which often have considerable influence over what is explored there at any given time.

 

If you were to equate levels of human consciousness to keys on a piano, you would find that each "note" or tone represents one of the energy centers (chakras) functioning within, for example, your human body. You begin your tonal scale with "do," which is the first (root) chakra of that body, and you move up.......through "re" (the second chakra), mi (the third chakra), and so on..........all the way up to "ti," (the crown chakra) where you find yourself ready to begin playing again at a new octave. The Astral Plane begins the gateway into the next octaves of your conscious experience.

 

Those who have made serious studies into ethereal reality tend to be somewhat negative in their attitude towards the Astral Plane. Many think of it as an etheric "junk yard," wherein divergent and confused energies wander aimlessly, trying to make sense of where they are, and how they came to be there. But these judgments are usually drawn by those who have already committed themselves to something. They forget how blissful it can be to simply window shop, to consider, and to resonate with several potential realities at once.

 

Beyond the Astral Plane exists the Reconnected Oneself. Whereas the Astral is made up of consciousness that thinks or believes it knows things..........the Unified Oneself is the part of you which absolutely knows. It KNOWS because it contains all possible levels of every possible situation or interaction.

 

When a person is finished with window shopping---having sufficiently explored all the possibilities---he or she will begin Reconnecting to Oneness. This is a process that can only be accomplished while that person is still present in physical form. In order to do it, he must be willing to forego all his mental ponderings, judgments, and emotional reactivity that makes up most of the drama in your everyday life. He must find a way to go above it, or perhaps to tunnel under it, connecting directly to the Universal Touchstone of Oneness with everything and everyone. When contact with that level of being is reached, all of his attachments and bondage to earthly outcome are erased. At that point, anything becomes possible.

 

THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW

 

Consider for a moment the image of a strong man, standing on a mountain peak, high above the Earth. Through the mist that surrounds his mountain, the man sees a second peak, directly across the valley. The thought enters his mind that he would like to experience that other peak, but there is way too much valley between the two. If he chose, the man could climb down from his mountain, travel through the valley, which seems rather dark and forboding, and climb up the mountain on the other side. The mere thought of moving through that shadowy void, however, makes the whole prospect seem fearsome and impossible.

 

The primary obstacle which blocks the attainment of this man's desire is the separation which he perceives between the two mountains. There seems to be just too big a gap for him to leap across. In many ways, this "gap" is at the root of nearly all problems which arise today in 3D reality.

 

Change the scene. Two men meet together in a public park. One of them says or does something which deeply offends the other, and a shouting match occurs. The topic could be politics, religion, finances, or romance. It usually does not matter. This encounter is a programmed response, anyway. As each continues to speak his mind, the "gap" between them grows deeper and wider. Resentment, hatred, and disdain now exist where once there could have been trust and goodwill.

 

Both of these men are Multidimensional. They are jewels with many facets. Each of them have selves that live high, on the mountain top, and each of them has variations of selves that live deep down in the Valley as well. In the Valley there are horrors galore---guilt, shame, and anger that never seems to be satisfied. What creates a shadow is some object or person that stands between a reflecting surface and the light. In the language of metaphor, your shadow is the part of your own self that is hidden from you because you are standing in your own way.

 

What each man in the above story is reacting to is his own Shadow Reflection, seen in the face of the other. We have spoken about this principle at length in our transmission entitled "Relationships: A Time for Healing." For many years, this process of Creative Shadow Work has provided your planet with tools to complete certain alchemical changes that are required for the Reconnection of your Mental Body. Now it is time for you to begin penetration into your Emotional Body. It is time for you to leave the Valley of the Shadow and to learn the art of building Astral Bridges.

 

WHAT IS AN ASTRAL BRIDGE?

  

In the above story of the two mountains, our wishful climber could surely benefit from some form of Connection, spanning peak to peak, which would allow him to avoid having to go down his mountain and through the Valley to get to the other side. If he knew about his Divine Multidimensional Nature, and had knowledge of how to build an Astral Bridge, his problems would be solved.

 

"Many of you may remember a film that was released a few years back called "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." This film includes a particularly inspiring scene, in which the hero finds himself needing to cross from one high place to another (very much like in our story above). In a required act of faith, appropriate to the plot, he places his foot upon what *appears to be* empty air, and a bridge instantly appears beneath his feet, allowing him to cross safely to the other side."

In another famous film, "The Matrix," released only a couple of years ago, one of the heros demonstrated a mastery of physical force, using what was called a "Jump Program," which enabled him to leap across a huge expanse of physical space, moving freely from one high building to another. Even characters in the film exclaimed "Whoa! That's impossible."

  

An Astral Bridge begins as an Etheric Connector which brings together two points in physical space which appear to be separated by a gap. The Bridge itself originates somewhere else in the Multiverse---performing a clear purpose within an alternative level of here and now. Through a process we shall explain shortly, a perceptual cursor is passed over the image, and it is highlighted and copied (to use familiar computer terms) to a place where it is desperately needed.

 

At the moment of its transposition, an Astral Bridge is constructed almost entirely of faith. It has been written that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." People don't believe in things because they appear. Things appear in physical space because people believe in them. So it is with an Astral Bridge. At the moment it is required, the Bridge gets pasted directly into your NOW.........in a process that only could be described as miraculous........even though it often appears to be a natural part of your flow.

 

HOW MANIFESTATION OCCURS

 

As we mentioned in Trans-Portals 1 and 2, the key to travel within the Multiverse is found in a person's ability to detach himself from his current surroundings, by finding a state of neutrality, so that he can journey anywhere else he wishes to go. What keeps you all trapped in your current 3D context is your continuous *clinging* to outcomes (cause and effect relationships) that you imagine are in operation there. My Dear Friends, this is ILLUSION.

 

When something manifests in your 3D world, it arrives because you *called for it* with your mind and heart. It makes little difference whether your call was a conscious one, or whether it was something that was issued from beneath your Veil of Forgetfulness. It came from you, and you need to own that before you can break free from its influence. Those who have trouble with this concept may need to circle back and do some Creative Shadow Work, as we mentioned a bit earlier in this transmission.

  

Basically..... a successful "call" for reality manifestation involves (at least) two elements:

 

1. A clear statement of belief or intent, spoken or held in a positive way........followed immediately by........

 

2. A complete release of the outcome into the hands of the Expanded Self.

  

A person doesn't manifest his or her world out of nothing. Rather, each of you forms your personal reality from the *everything,* which exists all around you. In order to make something physical, you simply focus upon it.....(which slows down the vibration sufficiently for it to solidify), and then you install Perceptual Veils around it, to block out the awareness of everything else that is there. This is your own perceptual equivalent of putting blinders on a horse.

 

As you begin your process of focusing, you must clearly realize how the creative element of your mind works. The explanation we are going to make for you now is a linear one, because you are currently operating within a linear reality base. Please realize that you have the power to change the order or the rules of this process at any time.

 

Like the printer on a computer, which faithfully stacks and programs its activity based upon keys hit by the operator, your very own Creative Manifesting Mind begins printing out reality based upon statements which you, yourself, hold to be true. Even though your statement is uttered only within your own mind, and is held for just one second, it has absolute power to form your world. And it frequently does!

 

Your affirmative statements, especially when accompanied by true desire and passion, are like Genies from a bottle, granting you everything you could ever wish for. As one Dear Entity once phrased it: "The universe rearranges itself according to your beliefs about what is real." It does this through your own declarations of *what is,* not through declarations of *what is not.*

 

The programming software in your Creative, Manifesting Mind *does not* recognize or respond to words like "no," "not," "don't," or "can't." It automatically eliminates them from your command line. Therefore, whenever a person declares, within himself: "I don't want to smoke" or "I am not going to be angry today," the Creative Manifesting Mind hears (and responds to) an affirmative version of those statements. What it hears is: "I do want to smoke," and "I am going to be angry today."

 

You must realize that physical reality is created from FOCUS. If you are constantly focusing upon what you *don't want," rather than on what you *do want,* your manifestation power will tend follow that focus. The locus of power in a Call to Manifest is located between the subject and the desired (or declared) action or outcome. The commands are stacked and prioritized in your printer, according to the following factors:

 

1. The "Level" of Self that is making the command (The more Expanded Aspects of you get the most clout when it comes to ordering up your manifestations)

 

2. The Desire, Intensity, and Clarity behind the declaration.

 

3. The Order of Command Presentation to the Creative Mechanism.

 

If the desire and intensity of command lines are equal, and they all come from the same level of Self, the manifestations will print out according to the order in which the commands were made. Indeed, this is a very 3D explanation, and we realize that. However, it absolutely works, as long as you are still operating within a 3D format. If a command line comes in from "outside the box" (from your Expanded Self), it will automatically hold precedence over commands that are presented from the Ego Aspect. In other words, it gets to crowd ahead of you in the cafeteria line. But the Ego still has creative power, as all aspects of you have divinity.

 

Statements of similar velocity, which are contradictory, tend to cancel each other out. Their expression is like a husband and wife who go together to vote in a public election. He votes republican and she votes democratic. In truth, the 3D effect produced is no different than if they would have stayed home (except for the satisfaction they receive from exercising their options). In the same way, your inner consciousness frequently entertains divergent points of view. At times, many aspects of you can be barking contradictory commands with virtually the same intensity. If this occurs, your printer gets jammed, and you may end up having to reboot!

 

LETTING IT HAPPEN

 

When using Trans-Portals, either for personal travel or to take delivery on key aspects of your current reality, it is crucial that you learn to *let go of the process* after you have clearly issued the command line. In essence, the Trans-Portal System in the Multiverse functions very similar to the digestive tract in the human body. After materials and energy are introduced into the system, you need to relax and allow the mechanism to do its job. You must let go of your focus *entirely,* and go busy yourself with something else.

 

Clearly making a statement of desire and intent leaves an etheric impression in the "reality bubble" of a person's existence. It registers, whether he is aware of it or not. An order gets introduced. As long as a "cancel order" is not sent in after it, the Creative Mechanism (the internal search engine) will begin collating results and alternatives to meet the command.

 

Following a command statement with an attitude of *complete release and confidence* (in other words......with faith)...... pulls the Ego of the operator away from the keyboard, for reassignment elsewhere. Energetically, this produces a backdraft of energy (a vacuum) which accelerates the "digestion" process and speeds up delivery. In essence, your attitude of trust actually *sucks* your order through the pipeline more quickly, drawing to you whatever it is that you desire.

 

To place an order, and then to stew over it, creates an attitude of doubt in your creative ability. It's like sitting down to eat with 20 people watching your every bite. After awhile, you begin to get a lump in your stomach. The digestive juices become inhibited, and the whole system slows down. It is no different with Trans-Portals. Your desires and commands are transmitted organically, and your physical body (especially your nervous system) is very much involved in the process.

 

BUILDING ASTRAL BRIDGES

 

Now that we have briefly explained the process of everyday manifestation, we will teach you how this applies to Astral Bridges. As we have said, the need for a Bridge involves the presence of a GAP that exists between two or more objects (or individuals) in physical space. This can either be a physical distance, or it can be a relationship impasse that has formed, keeping folks from understanding and integrating with each other.

 

The need to get from "here to there" in 3D arises from a belief in and support of a paradigm of Separation. The Valley of the Shadow represents all the reasons why the Separation formed in the first place. When this situation involves people separating themselves from other people, the Shadow Effect is created because there are aspects of your "other" that you have difficulty accepting as self. Until now, your focus in Reconnection has been to examine this other person, and mentally analyze what it is about this person that you have been denying in yourself. And this is all very good. It feeds your consciousness, and expands awareness. But there is more to full integration than that.

 

The reason you find it hard to "digest" certain types of people into your Oneself Body stems not from what exists in that person, but what is missing in you. We call your attention back to our analogy of Trans-Portals being similar to the human digestive system. When people demonstrate an "allergy" to certain foods, it usually stems from some *processing element* (like an enzyme, for example) that is missing from their digestive process. For some reason, their body doesn't create that chemical, and the whole process suffers because of it. Despite their best attempts to prepare the offending foods properly, with style and variation, the digestive system continues to have problems until the necessary supplement gets added to the process.

 

Not all the people and situations you encounter in physical space are meant to become permanent parts of your life. Sometimes, they simply appear as catalysts for you to reach into your Multidimensional Self and discover new qualities or elements that you have forgotten. And, during a time of conflict, your task of integration and acceptance may not always be focused upon the person who is irritating you. That may only be incidental to the bigger picture.

 

You must remember that both you and the people with whom you have conflicts are Multidimensional Beings. If you are having a dance with someone in current 3D reality, you can count on the fact that there are dances going on between you all up and down the vibrational spectrum---literally involving a whole spreadsheet of possible/probable contacts--many of which are quite pleasant.

 

The resolution of present-moment conflict with another person (or society, for that matter) is brought about by opening a Portal between the physical aspect of you that exists *here* and an alternative aspect of you that exists *elsewhere*---particularly an aspect that is currently enjoying harmonious contact with the very same type of energy which is giving you such heartburn in this current moment.

 

My Friends, if it were possible for you to analyze the energy "chemistry" of the version of you that exists HERE, and the alternative version of yourself that is functioning THERE, you would notice that one or more key elements are missing. To remedy this, an Astral Bridge is formed by taking a "soul sample" of that alternative self and infusing it into yourself here. This is all done in just the ways we outlined for you above.

 

Once the required "energy supplement" gets added to your digestive system, you will find that the whole TONE of your current relationships begin to change. And, it happens automatically, without conscious effort or struggle. The only thing you require is a clear statement of intent (which would be blending with a more Expanded Level of Yourself), and the faith that is required to bring it all about.

 

With all of this in mind, the process for Building Astral Bridges in a relationship would be as follows:

 

1. Notice the exact SENSE of dissonance that exists. Many people are not aware of their sensory impressions, or of any hard feelings that exist between themselves and others. The same is true with allergic foods. Because you aren't aware of what is happening, you keep eating the offending foods, and you keep Shadow Boxing in your current relationships, rather than calling for the necessary "medicine" to complete your process, so your systems can begin to function at a new level.

 

2. Notice how you FEEL when you are in the presence of your "other." How does your body react when he or she approaches you? This is very important information if you are going to command a "search engine" to locate an alternative version of you that can assist in the integration process.

 

***A Key Principle: The first step toward feeling better is becoming better at feeling.

 

3. Ask yourself what you WANT to be different in this relationship. When you do this please *do not* concern yourself with whether or not the change would be possible. Anything is possible if you can believe.

 

4. Make a clear statement of intent, asking your Multidimensional Self to help you find a "Guide" that possesses the "medicine" which you require. A statement that might serve the process might be:

 

"I am Stephen, of the Oneself. I am seeking to contact a level of my Multidimensional Self that is now enjoying a harmonious relationship with this energy currently mirrored to me in Fred. I wish to begin a blending, a sampling of energies with that Self, so that I may be transformed---so that I may be let go of all resistance to accept Fred as a valid and beautiful part of my universe. In faith, I believe. In perfect timing, I shall receive. So let it be."

 

(The wording will come to you when you are ready. These are not established formulas, but simply samples of what is possible if you are ready to move into this process)

 

5. Turn the outcome completely over to the universe. If the offending individual tries to engage you in debate, deep discussion, or argument, you can say to him (as politely as possible) "I am unable to discuss this with you now, but I will get back to you as soon as I can." Then, forget about it. Involve yourself with other tasks. Do not analyze it further, and do not approach the person (unless you must, in order to handle necessary business together) as long as there is any remnant of dissonance remaining. Your sense of continued discomfort is your indicator that the required "enzyme" has not yet spread itself throughout your system. And your relief from same will be your barometer concerning when you have had enough of this particular medicine.

 

If two individuals in a relationship space are performing this alchemical process together, it can be Onederful, but only one "operator" is really required. That is because there is only one of you there anyway! When your "digestion" processes begin to change, you will be amazed at how your own perception of this person begins to shift. It will be like gazing at a hologram in a painting. The picture looks a certain way in one moment, and it changes completely in the next. Realize now that this is due, almost entirely, to energetic changes that have occurred in you.

 

Reconnection to Oneness involves making contact, first and foremost, with your Expanded Self, with your own "Big Story." Only then will your "small story" sub-plots begin reflecting the harmony that is your birthright. As the Psalm clearly states: "Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow..........I will fear no evil.......for thou art with me." In these powerful days of Phase Shifting and Alchemical Blending, the Expanded Oneself is not just with you.......He/She/We are *within you* as well. You will be rapidly developing your own functional immunity to the many energetic "diseases" that have troubled your soul during this outgoing Paradigm of Separation. In fact, the very word "immune" almost brings to mind the words "I AM IN YOU," does it not? And so it is becoming, My Friends.

 

STANDING ON A MOUNTAIN TOP

 

It is the privilege of The Reconnections to "fill in all the gaps" that separate your Limitation Self from your Expanded Self. We do it slowly, and with much love. There is no need to rush. You have all the time in the world. Each of you came to this place from realms of expression that were nothing less than fantastic. In your "former estate," you were able to do or have anything you wished, just by thinking it. Being natives of such splendor, you yearned for a vacation, of sorts. You wanted to know what it would be like to embody *something* rather than to be *everything.* You wanted to distinguish yourself from others, from various objects and animals, and you wanted to learn what it feels like to need.

 

Soon your research project will be completed. Has this form of reality gotten your goat? Never fear, he's right up there.......perched upon that mountain top. Watch him as he leaps from peak to peak, with perfect grace, perfect ease. Travel freely the Bridges Across Forever!

 

There are Portals, Gates, Bridges, and Inner Pathways all around you.......each volume on a bookshelf, each picture that is hanging on the wall. Words can be a Portal, a statue can be one, or even a rose. An encounter with any symbol can be a spark of remembrance, leading you through a perceptual doorway---into a limitless storehouse of possible/probable versions of that same one thing. Connect two of them, or three, or four.........and the dance goes on into infinity.

 

Some of you will begin to perceive immediately, with no help. Others may need to initiate visualization or meditation processes to tap into their stored memories. All you need do is drop your shields, and the guiding energy will begin to open your eyes. Some will do it sooner, others will do it later. Each person to his own plan, and his own style of unfoldment. As we have said previously, each event is its own miracle. However, some people require more "nudges" than others in order to shake off their slumber.

 

Remember that everything is perfect, and everything is there, filed neatly within the Multiverse. The primary purpose of your physical journey is to explore details, and make alchemical adjustments before you make the leap to more expanded realms. As always, we shall be available to you on the inner planes. Look for us there, and we shall appear to you in whatever form you require.

 

www.reconnections.net/trans_portals3.htm

Entry 1 of 2 today, one of my beloved, overcomposed, secondary composition element riddled shortline wedges.

 

Although a trip to the G&U had been on my to-do list for years it never got prioritized due to a glut of great paint schemes to shoot elsewhere. Shortly before the spring trip began I saw a nice clean Blazejewski wedge of G&U using a rock wall as a leading element and I was sold!

 

I just so happened to be visiting Blaze this trip so on a mostly beautiful morning following a night of drinking we went up to North Grafton. The scanner was crackling as we got to town (Dave's, not mine. I run deaf) and after a couple hours of switch the train went south. We decided to forego the iconic church shot at Grafton to leave enough time to set up in this field a couple miles south. Satisfied after combing through the field for angles (there are many to choose from) I settled in to wait, and wait we did! What in the fuck! It's hot, there are gnats and we're pretty clearly standing somewhere that we're obviously not supposed to be. Now there's clouds moving in from the northeast and I'm holding it together but I'm starting to freak out a little because this is the only real nice wedge LOCATION on the railroad and we're gonna lose it because they stop and switch for an hour everywh....HORN! Fucking finally a fucking horn and everything is beautiful and it's sunny and I have puffy little clouds in the sky and Erie is happy and I'm standing in a beautiful New England hay field strewn with rock walls and everything is fuckin perfect!

 

I'm definitely coming back here again.

 

Thanks Blaze!

When engaging in a bicycle ride or walk along the Neuse River Greenway in Raleigh, North Carolina, one is immediately captivated by the serene beauty and tranquility of this natural space.

 

However, it is important to acknowledge that despite the presence of chirping birds, graceful deer prancing, and occasional sightings of Great Blue Herons or Eagles, the Neuse River Greenway has been the site of numerous tragic incidents, including drownings, murders, and mass shootings.

 

On August 2026, a male victim was discovered in a drowning investigation near Loch Raven Parkway.

 

A month earlier, on July 2026, a 12-year-old girl tragically succumbed to drowning after entering the water while swimming in the area and failing to resurface.

 

In June 2025, 39-year-old Adrien Basilio drowned in the same stretch of the river after submerging and failing to resurface. Furthermore, in 2024, multiple fatalities occurred at the location, prompting local authorities to address safety concerns. They installed signs, urging users of the river to prioritize safety.

 

MURDERS

 

On October 13, 2022, a 15-year-old gunman perpetrated a mass shooting in the Hedingham neighborhood and along the Neuse River Greenway Trail in Raleigh, killing 5 people.

 

This mass shooting marked the darkest association with the trail since its opening in November 2011.

 

Despite the haunting nature of this event, I continue to cycle on the trail daily.

   

Effective Range: Medium

Classification: Intelligence / Recon

Armaments: (1) SMG-UZ01A, (1) HR-HIBMSU01

 

One reason why the New Earth Strategic Trust faction is such a dominant force in the Quorus Wars is due to their supreme tactics and efficient strategies and have outfitted specific units like the Eagle EWAC to prioritize recon and intelligence gathering.

 

The Eagle EWAC is actually based on the NESF-M05E Eagle, a standard combat type reFrame that is deployed in heavy combat areas and serve as a main unit in NEST Special Forces ranks. The EWAC (Early Warning And Control) unit allows for efficient intelligence gathering that is sent to NEST's tactical HQ as data to create up-to-date battle strategies. Extra thrusters were equipped on the Eagle EWAC to give it better mobility in order to move faster to key locations for data scanning as well as avoid enemy units. It is equipped with a light submachine gun (SMG-UZ01A) and a hand cannon mounted on its left arm for emergency combat purposes.

 

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Build notes:

You can find more about the build in my blog article :D

 

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More info, WIP details, and other LEGO mechs over at my blog:

messymaru.wordpress.com/

 

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For those interested in LEGO mech building, I put out an eBook over at Amazon Kindle a while back called Mech Wars Instructional Primer. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful :D

Dear Flickr Friends,

 

Today I finished my second 365 and will be taking a Flickr and BK break. 2012 was a long year! There were many highlights...BlytheCon Dallas and BlytheCon Manchester being the two most memorable events!! There were also some yucky moments but we won't talk about those.

 

Scotty-daddy-poopy-pants and I sold our house this week. I will also be returning to work after a long personal health break. The next few weeks are to prioritize, inventory, and sort out life so to speak. My account here will also be changed over to a private one. Most of my regular contacts have been added to my friends list. I will be around, just not active for awhile.

 

I wish everyone well and will miss you all! You all know how much you mean to me and I shall not forget the friendships and kindnesses extended to me and my dolly family these past two years!

 

Love Juliet

Mural by ROSHI aka @dirtyoldroshi and Mister Toledo aka @mister_toledo, seen at 2268 Venice Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.

 

ROSHI states: "The foundation of self reflection always comes back to duality- the contrast of light/dark, good/evil, yes/no- the binary nature of mind in its attempt to understand, construct, and solve problems through a structure of coupling relativisms. We build perceptions on meaning and challenges to prioritize with this operating system. A crux of human experience: to be caught between the omnipotent state of being part of the collective godhead of creativity and the isolated fragment of being an individual satellite viewing their collective home from afar. Fun stuff to ponder on."

 

Drone photo by James aka Urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

 

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ATHENA ISR Program. US Army

 

BIZJETS OF WAR - APR 07, 2024

 

Amid program delays and revamps, the first ATHENA jet started a series of test flights in early March 2024. Shortly afterwards, the director of the U.S. Army's ISR Task Force shared the first clear image of the Global 6500 jet, showcasing its large radome and SIGINT sensor suite. The ATHENA program is the bridging phase between the ARES and ARTEMIS platforms and the final HADES jets and will consist of four Global 6500 bizjets with radome and SIGINT capabilities. Delays and supply-chain issues led to a restructuring of the program, but initial flight tests are now well underway ahead of delivery later this year.

 

The Army Theater-level High-altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ATHENA) program is the bridging phase between the contractor-owned and operated ARES and ARTEMIS jets, which are already flying operational missions, and the final HADES platform.

 

When the ATHENA contracts for the four modified Global 6500s were awarded to the MAG Aerospace-L3Harris team and SNC, the program was structured into two components: ATHENA-R and ATHENA-S. The first phase, ATHENA-R (Radar) was planned to house a DoD-provided radar system and a SIGINT suite. Delivery to the U.S. Army was set for January 2024, but supply chain and program issues have resulted in delays. In parallel, the U.S. Army assessed that both ATHENA variants require both SIGINT and radar capabilities, leading to the service dropping the ‘-S’ and ‘-R’ variants and no longer prioritizing the delivery of one ‘variant’ over the other.

 

The first ATHENA jet will be deployed to South Korea, joining ARES deployed to Japan and several other COCO ISR bizjets in the region. While the specific deployment areas of the other ATHENA jets are unknown, two airframes will presumably be deployed to the Indo-Pacific theatre and the other two to Europe.

 

Besides the clear threats, the assumption that ATHENA will join the ARTEMIS jets in Europe is also based on an announcement from last year that stated ATHENA-S will ‘‘support U.S. Army missions in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility.’’ However, the program revamps and the ever-changing ISR needs of the U.S. military may have changed those plans or will do so in the future.

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Also:

 

MAG Aerospace and L3Harris team to deliver the US Army Theater-Level, High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne (ATHENA-R) ISR aircraft.

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Press Release, Fairfax VA, 22 August 2023: The US Army awarded prime contractor MAG Aerospace and teaming partner L3Harris Technologies a contract to deliver two enhanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft to support the Army’s Theater-Level, High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne ISR-Radar Program – known as ATHENA-R.

 

Integrated on Bombardier Global 6500 aircraft, the system will help the Army meet global intelligence requirements. Operating at high altitude will provide the aircraft greater survivability and line-of-sight, both essential to help the Army achieve its long-range precision fires modernization priorities.

 

MAG Aerospace is currently the prime contractor for the Army’s Sensor Technology Operations and Readiness (STORM) contract. Being deeply embedded in these critical capabilities is core to MAG’s mission of making the world smaller and safer.

 

“MAG is honoured to support the Army’s ATHENA-R Program. Current geopolitical circumstances dictate a need for an adaptable and resolute ISR solution that can adequately address near-peer threats and future contested environments, and we are prepared to execute,” said Joseph Reale, CEO, MAG Aerospace. “MAG has an exceptional performance history of delivering and managing extensive turnkey aerial C5ISR programs in the most austere and challenging operational environments worldwide. This award is validation of the relentless work our employees execute everyday alongside our customers.”

 

Designed to close the gap between the Army’s medium and high-altitude ISR aircraft fleet, the ATHENA-R Program will provide greater endurance, more payload capacity, longer standoff ranges and leading-edge sensor technology in support of US combatant commands.

 

“We have a great track record of working with the Army,” said Jon Rambeau, President, Integrated Mission Systems, L3Harris. “Our team understands the urgency of fielding these long-range, deep-sensing capabilities to support the Army’s mission needs and is positioned to deliver.”

 

Besides winning a contract in September 2022 to develop Phase 2 of the Army’s Multi-Domain Sensing System program, L3Harris supports an additional Army ISR mission: the Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare aircraft known as ARES.

Rapallo South is a historic high-rise condominium tower built in 1973, located at 1801 South Flagler Drive along the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach, Florida. It operates alongside its twin tower, Rapallo North (1701 South Flagler Drive), serving as a foundational piece of the local waterfront skyline.

 

Early Land History

Homestead Beginnings: Long before the high-rises were constructed, the land along South Flagler Drive was part of a Homestead Act grant given to South Carolina author James Woods Davidson in 1885.

 

Neighborhood Growth: The site sits adjacent to the historic El Cid neighborhood and the Mango Promenade district, areas that grew rapidly during the Florida land boom of the 1920s.

 

Construction and Establishment

1972 Incorporation: The corporate entity behind the tower, Rapallo South, Inc., was officially registered with the state of Florida on March 1, 1972.

 

1973 Completion: Construction concluded in 1973. Standing at 18 to 19 stories, the towers were designed with a mid-century functional aesthetic, prioritizing spacious balconies to maximize eastward views of Palm Beach Island and the Atlantic Ocean.

 

Modern Evolution

Value and Appeal: Over the decades, Rapallo South has transitioned from a standard mid-century high-rise into a highly sought-after "value play" on the South Flagler corridor, offering direct waterfront views at a more accessible price point than newer luxury developments.

 

High-Profile Residents: The building's historic charm and premier location continue to attract notable figures, including reality television personality Sonja Morgan from 'The Real Housewives of New York City', who purchased a permanent residence in the building.

 

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“It is not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare”

~James Russell Lowell

 

I have spent the better part of my life, living with and around more than enough. More than enough food. More than enough clothes. More than enough shelter. More than enough support. More than enough love.

 

When life events brought me to Buffalo, NY in the Fall of 2012 I thought it was for a short visit in between jobs. Little did I know I would end up living on the East Side of the City of Buffalo in a humble old home. The home was owned by Pastor Giles. Pastor Giles has been chest deep in helping individuals, families, and the community for over 20 years; often times helping people in the very worst of times and situations. Less than 3 miles from my home was Back to Basics Outreach Ministries - a Beacon of Hope for community members in dealing with homelessness, hunger, violence, and trauma that can and does suck the life and sometimes hope out of the strongest of people. It was at Back to Basics that community members continued to invite me in to their lives. Sharing laughter, tears, loss, and yes, small and big successes.

 

More than enough. Back in Central Florida in storage I had more nice clothes and shoes and sneakers than any man should own. Big Screen TVs, electronics, antiques and nice furniture with area rugs and over 400 picture frames of all sizes. More than enough material things...and most of my life I wanted bigger TVs, newer and better electronics, more clothes...More.

 

My idea of more than enough has changed. Seeing every day for nearly 3 years kids and adults alike who didn't know where their next meal is coming from IS supposed to change a person.

 

The most recent data available regarding poverty in the city of Buffalo, NY shows 54% of children living in poverty - more than half.

Abandoned, shuttered, and demolished houses can be seen on nearly every block. Approximately 10,000 homes are counted as vacant in the City; second only to St. Louis in the US.

 

We lived on a street that years ago had been in the heart of the proud Polish Community. 150 yards up the road was a beautiful, grand Catholic church. The church was still operating but was lacking in funds to make needed structural repairs. On our street there was a mixture of home owners who had the means to care for their houses, and vacant, boarded, and destroyed homes.

 

In 2015, 41 percent of all fires in Buffalo were in vacant buildings, and more than 90 percent of all arson cases involved abandoned houses.

 

The above picture was taken about 2:30am. The house on fire was abandoned but nearby homes were occupied. Our home was about 40 feet from the burning building in the back. I had already prioritized our important material things and readied the car for a quick escape if needed to be before taking pictures.

 

God Bless our Leaders, Fire Fighters, Police Officers, and all who they serve. And let me always keep in the front of my mind I have more than enough; and something I have someone might need.

 

“It is not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare”

~James Russell Lowell

 

I heard a teacher once use the above quote and then said..."We don't know what we truly have until someone else needs it."

 

Augustus once said, “I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.” The establishment of the Roman Empire ushered in a 200-year golden age known as the Pax Romana, marked by relative peacefulness and stability, during which the empire reached its greatest territorial extents. Several Emperors prioritized the construction of significant works of public amenities as much as their own domūs and monuments. In fact, the phrase panem et circenses (bread and circuses) was originally a satirical jab at such artificial appeasement. Nonetheless, the Romans’ advancements in public infrastructure was unprecedented. The vast aqueduct system provided more than 300 million gallons of water on a daily basis. To put this into perspective, that’s more daily water per capita than modern New York City. It’s little wonder, then, how Rome became the first city in history to reach a population of more than one million. Such density, however, proved to be disastrous in July 64 CE when a devasting fire destroyed two-thirds of the city. The Great Fire of Rome lasted nine days and is regarded as one of the worst urban conflagrations in history. While the aftermath would provide a clean slate for reconstruction, the efforts were certainly not without their exploitations as Emperor Nero began persecuting Christians and numerous projects were funded and built on the wealth and backs of newly conquered peoples. Although the Pax Romana is said to have ended with the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 CE, the Halcyon days of Rome lasted until its eventual sack in 410 CE, but not before Emperor Constantine I brought about the Edict of Milan in 313, legalizing Christianity and paving the way for the eventual Edict of Thessalonica which made it the Empire’s official state church. Having left an indelible legacy on world history through such social decrees coupled with its pioneering achievements in public infrastructure, Rome is considered to be the greatest city of the Ancient world.

In June 2020, after experiencing a devastating spring due to COVID, New York State announced that certain businesses could begin partially opening again. New York City’s response included a program called Open Restaurants, which allowed restaurants to use sidewalks and parking spaces for outdoor, socially distant dining. Owners quickly built temporary enclosures in the streets in front of their businesses to try and recover from months of shutdown. Small stretches of Brooklyn in early 2021 display the variety and feel of these enclosures. Hopefully, the Open Restaurants initiative will help these businesses to survive and may even lead to a more permanent reorienting of streets to prioritize people over cars.

One of Webb’s most complex instrument modes is with the MIRI Medium Resolution Spectrometer (MRS). The MRS is an integral-field spectrograph, which provides spectral and spatial information simultaneously for the entire field of view. The spectrograph provides three-dimensional ‘data cubes’ in which every pixel in an image contains a unique spectrum. Such spectrographs are extremely powerful tools to study the composition and kinematics of astronomical objects, as they combine the benefits of both traditional imaging and spectroscopy.

 

“The MRS is designed to have a spectral resolving power (observed wavelength divided by the smallest detectable wavelength difference) of about 3,000. That is high enough to resolve key atomic and molecular features in a variety of environments. At the highest redshifts, the MRS will be able to study hydrogen emission from the first galaxies. At lower redshifts, it will probe molecular hydrocarbon features in dusty nearby galaxies and detect the bright spectral fingerprints of elements such as oxygen, argon, and neon that can tell us about the properties of ionized gas in the interstellar medium. Closer to home, the MRS will produce maps of spectral features due to water ice and simple organic molecules in giant planets in our own solar system and in planet-forming disks around other stars.

 

“In order to cover the wide 5 to 28 micron wavelength range as efficiently as possible, the MRS integral field units are broken up into twelve individual wavelength bands, each of which must be calibrated individually. Over the past few weeks, the MIRI team (a large international group of astronomers from the USA and Europe) has been focusing primarily on calibrating the imaging components of the MRS. They want to ensure that all twelve bands are spatially well aligned with each other and with the MIRI Imager, so that it can be used to place targets accurately into the smaller MRS field of view. We show some early test results from this alignment process, illustrating the image quality achieved in each of the twelve bands using observations of the bright K giant star HD 37122 (located in the southern sky near the Large Magellanic Cloud).

 

“Once the spatial alignment and image quality of the several bands are well characterized, the MIRI team will prioritize calibrating the spectroscopic response of the instrument. This step will include determining the wavelength solution and spectral resolution throughout each of the twelve fields of view using observations of compact emission-line objects and diffuse planetary nebulae ejected by dying stars. We show the exceptional spectral resolving power of the MRS with a small segment of a spectrum obtained from recent engineering observations of the active galactic nucleus at the core of Seyfert galaxy NGC 6552. Once these basic instrument characteristics are established, it will be possible to calibrate MRS so that it is ready to support the wealth of Cycle 1 science programs due to start in a few short weeks.”

 

Read more: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/06/16/webbs-mid-infrared-spectro...

 

This image: This portion of the MIRI MRS wavelength range shows engineering calibration data obtained of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 6552 (red line) in the constellation Draco. The strong emission feature is due to molecular hydrogen, with an additional weaker feature nearby. The blue line shows a lower spectral resolution Spitzer IRS spectrum of a similar galaxy for comparison. The Webb test observations were obtained to establish the wavelength calibration of the spectrograph. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the MIRI Consortium.

In June 2020, after experiencing a devastating spring due to COVID, New York State announced that certain businesses could begin partially opening again. New York City’s response included a program called Open Restaurants, which allowed restaurants to use sidewalks and parking spaces for outdoor, socially distant dining. Owners quickly built temporary enclosures in the streets in front of their businesses to try and recover from months of shutdown. Small stretches of Brooklyn in early 2021 display the variety and feel of these enclosures. Hopefully, the Open Restaurants initiative will help these businesses to survive and may even lead to a more permanent reorienting of streets to prioritize people over cars.

Effective Range: Medium

Classification: Intelligence / Recon

Armaments: (1) SMG-UZ01A, (1) HR-HIBMSU01

 

One reason why the New Earth Strategic Trust faction is such a dominant force in the Quorus Wars is due to their supreme tactics and efficient strategies and have outfitted specific units like the Eagle EWAC to prioritize recon and intelligence gathering.

 

The Eagle EWAC is actually based on the NESF-M05E Eagle, a standard combat type reFrame that is deployed in heavy combat areas and serve as a main unit in NEST Special Forces ranks. The EWAC (Early Warning And Control) unit allows for efficient intelligence gathering that is sent to NEST's tactical HQ as data to create up-to-date battle strategies. Extra thrusters were equipped on the Eagle EWAC to give it better mobility in order to move faster to key locations for data scanning as well as avoid enemy units. It is equipped with a light submachine gun (SMG-UZ01A) and a hand cannon mounted on its left arm for emergency combat purposes.

 

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Build notes:

You can find more about the build in my blog article :D

 

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More info, WIP details, and other LEGO mechs over at my blog:

messymaru.wordpress.com/

 

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For those interested in LEGO mech building, I put out an eBook over at Amazon Kindle a while back called Mech Wars Instructional Primer. If you’re looking for a resource that could help you start or even improve your mech building skills, you might find this eBook useful :D

New Year’s Eve-2024

Ninety-nine percent of good railroad photography is just getting out the door with your camera. Once that’s accomplished, you still have one percent to work with. That was my thought when a FB private message from DC Hammon popped up on my phone. DC allowed that a westbound CSX empty hopper train was enroute from Kingsport to Loyall, with the Clinchfield heritage unit on the point. It was gloomy and misting rain, but after about ten seconds of pondering, I elected to engage the ninety nine percent part of the mission.

I haven’t been on FB much lately. Even though I had a flu vaccine a few weeks ago, on Saturday I was in the Ballad urgent care facility in Norton. I was coughing, congested, chilling, and with all the characteristics of something nasty. It wasn’t COVID, but a strain of flue that must have been a variant not included into blend of vaccines I had received earlier. That’s not unusual, of course, but it doesn’t often happen to me.

Wilma has also been sick, and Walnut has really been having a tough go of it (although in her case I think it’s just her declining age). We haven’t been much, if at all (except for a few runs to pick up essentials). At last, I was feeling more like myself, so this would be a good way to change the afternoon routine. I thought the experience of doing some train photography would be worth the effort, even if I wouldn’t come back home with some masterpiece of imagery worthy of a CRPA award (like that’s ever gonna happen!).

I encountered CSX 1902 West sooner than I had anticipated, at Duffield. I had left the house half thinking of going to Natural Tunnel, but I gave up on that when I realized I had left my wide angle lens at home. I wheeled through a crossover on US 23 and backtracked (no pun intended) until I could crank off a couple of “poke and hope” pacing shots in a short stretch where the highway paralleled the track without major obstructions. I mostly was trying to avoid veering into another lane in front of a semi---but traffic was very light.

Pushing ahead, the unexpected growth of lineside vegetation had erased some earlier “honey hole” spots, but I pulled up to a small clearing and got the train as it passed my spot at the passing track at Jasper. What next?

Photo locations on lines where you’ve photographed trains for decades are like a mental Rolodex, prioritized by train direction, lighting, foreground clutter, backgrounds, and on and on. I decided to drive in to “furnace dip” to get him dropping downgrade from East Stone Gap and across the short South Fork of Powell River Bridge. The weather was going from crummy to extra crummy.

After getting that shot, I drove out and headed home. As I was crossing the East 19th Street crossing, I reflexively looked right to see if the EOT was clear of the distant junction. Instead, I saw the head and ditch lights of an eastbound NS run. Instead of going over the hill toward the house, I drove to the old depot site to get a shot of my buddy Brian Richardson handling an eastbound coal train with three big NS units.

Happy New Year, Brian, and thanks for the tip, DC!

In fact, Happy New Year to everyone!

"Vortex"

 

These dunes were so incredible that I decided to return a few times and spend several days exploring them. Even so, I scarcely made a dent. After realizing how much I loved the way Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film renders light, shadow and texture in the desert, I decided to prioritize the black and white film images over color on future trips. This is from one of those trips. While hiking up a very large dune, I found this hole near the crest that had inexplicably formed up there in the side of the otherwise normal dune crest. In the sharp light shortly after sunrise, the sun made the inside of the hole appear black, and the wind had created these beautiful ripples cascading out away from the opening, causing it to look like a mysterious whirlpool or portal opening. I love the way the black and white film makes it look all the more mysterious and ominous.

 

Made with film.

Fujifilm Neopan Acros 100

Medium Format 6x7

Mamiya RB67 Professional

Mamiya-Sekor 90mm f/3.8

Mothers and children enjoy an afternoon game of volleyball on a beach in Majuro Atoll in the Marshall Islands on Nov. 9, 2015. For decades, the tiny Marshall Islands has been a stalwart American ally. Its location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has made it a key strategic outpost for the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

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AP NEWS

 

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — For decades, the tiny Marshall Islands has been a stalwart American ally. Its location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has made it a key strategic outpost for the U.S. military.

 

But that loyalty is being tested amid a dispute with Washington over the terms of its “Compact of Free Association” agreement, which expires soon. The U.S. is refusing to engage the Marshallese on claims for environmental and health damage caused by dozens of nuclear tests it carried out in the 1940s and ’50s, including a huge thermonuclear blast on Bikini Atoll.

 

The dispute has some U.S. lawmakers worried that China might be willing to step into the breach, adding to a bruising competition for geopolitical dominance between the two superpowers.

 

Since World War II, the U.S. has treated the Marshall Islands, along with Micronesia and Palau, much like territories. On the Marshall Islands, the U.S. has developed military, intelligence and aerospace facilities in a region where China is particularly active.

 

In turn, U.S. money and jobs have benefited the Marshall Islands’ economy. And many Marshallese have taken advantage of their ability to live and work in the U.S., moving in the thousands to Arkansas, Hawaii and Oklahoma.

 

But this month, 10 Democratic and Republican members of the House of Representatives wrote to President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, about the U.S. compact talks with the Marshalls, Micronesia and Palau.

 

“It is distressing that these negotiations do not appear to be a priority — there have been no formal meetings since this Administration began — even as our international focus continues shifting to the Indo-Pacific,” they wrote.

 

The lawmakers said the delays were putting the U.S. in a weaker position, and “China is all too ready to step in and provide the desperately needed infrastructure and climate resiliency investment that is sought by these long-time partners.”

 

China’s Foreign Ministry said the U.S. should face up to its responsibility to restore the environmental damage it caused with its nuclear tests. It said China was willing to engage with the Marshall Islands and other Pacific island nations on the basis of mutual respect and cooperation under the “One China Principle,” in which Taiwan is viewed as part of China.

 

“We welcome efforts to boost economic relations and improve the quality of life between the sides,” the ministry said in a statement.

 

China has steadily poached allies from Taiwan in the Pacific, including Kiribati and the Solomon Islands in 2019. Just this week, angry protesters in the Solomons set fire to buildings and looted stores in unrest that some have linked to the China switch.

 

James Matayoshi, the mayor of Rongelap Atoll on the Marshall Islands, said he and hundreds of others have remained displaced from their atoll since the nuclear tests and want to see it revitalized. He said officials have been talking with potential investors from Asia, after a previous proposal by a Chinese-Marshallese businessman fell through.

 

“It would be a business transaction. We don’t advocate for war or any superpower influence,” Matayoshi said. “But we want to be able to live in our backyard, and enjoy life here.”

 

Like many others on the Marshall Islands, Matayoshi believes a U.S. settlement of $150 million agreed to in the 1980s fell well short of addressing the nuclear legacy. He said his late mother was pregnant at the time of one massive nuclear blast and got exposed to radiation that was the equivalent of 25,000 X-rays before giving birth to a stillborn baby.

 

But the U.S. position has remained static for more than 20 years, the last time the compact came up for renegotiation. The U.S. maintains that nuclear compensation was dealt with in a “full and final settlement” and cannot be reopened.

 

Marshallese Senator David Paul — who is on the islands’ negotiating committee and also represents Kwajalein Atoll, which is home to a major U.S. military base — said continuing high cancer rates and the displacement of people remain huge issues.

 

“Everyone knows the negotiations at that time were not fair or equitable,” Paul said. “When you look at the total cost of property damage and the ongoing health issues to date, it’s a drop in the bucket. It’s an insult.”

 

Various estimates put the true cost of the damage at about $3 billion, including for repairs to a massive nuclear waste facility known as the Cactus Dome which environmentalists say is leaking toxic waste into the ocean.

 

A report to Congress last year from the U.S. Department of Energy said the dome contains over 100,000 cubic yards (76,000 cubic meters) of radioactively contaminated soil and debris but the structure wasn’t in any immediate danger of failing. The report concluded that any contaminated groundwater flowing beneath the structure was not measurably impacting the environment.

 

As it did in earlier compact negotiations, the U.S. has stonewalled discussions on the nuclear legacy, something that American officials acknowledge.

 

“We know that’s important, but there is a full and final settlement, and both sides agreed to it,” said a senior U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to publicly discuss the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity. “So, that issue is just not subject to being reopened. But, we’re still quite willing to work with the (Marshallese) on the broader issues that are important to us and that’s what we hope to do.”

 

The U.S. State Department said the Indo-Pacific is central to U.S. foreign policy.

 

“We are prioritizing achieving success in the negotiations related to the Compacts with the Freely Associated States as a regional foreign policy objective,” the department said.

 

The frustrations of the Marshallese were apparent in a letter sent last month by Foreign Minister Casten Nemra to Rep. Katie Porter, a California Democrat who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee’s oversight and investigations panel.

 

“The State and Interior Department officials involved have been unwilling to discuss an agenda for the talks and tried to confine the discussion to their own limited proposals,” Nemra wrote. “The nuclear issue clearly was one reason. All issues raised by the Marshall Islands were met with assertions that they did not have authority to discuss the matters without any indication that they would seek it.”

 

Sen. Paul said the American approach needs to change.

 

“I believe the U.S. has the legal and moral obligation to make sure they clean up this debris,” Paul said. “We want to make sure we get a better deal this time around. As they say, the third time is a charm.”

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Dec. 29, 2020) U.S. Pacific Fleet Fleet Master Chief James Honea receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Philip Sayma, assigned to Navy Environmental and Preventative Unit 6, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Naval Health Clinic was one of the facilities selected to receive the vaccine in a phased and coordinated strategy, prioritizing the vaccine for eligible personnel to protect their health, families, and communities. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Jay C. Pugh) (Released)

July 18, 2023 The Hill Live brings together caregivers, patients, clinical experts, and lawmakers to answer these questions and more as we discuss the fight against Alzheimer’s and breakthroughs in providing relief to those who suffer from agitation and aggression.

Alzheimer’s disease affects about 55 million people worldwide, including 6.5 million Americans, and has no cure. Some patients with Alzheimer’s sometimes show signs of extreme aggression or become restless and anxious as their brains lose the ability to negotiate with new stimulus.

 

Agitation is a common neuropsychiatric symptom in Alzheimer’s dementia and one of the most complex and stressful aspects of caring for people living with the condition. It is reported in approximately half of people with Alzheimer’s dementia and is associated with earlier alternative living placement.

 

What do patients, caregivers and families navigating the complexities of agitation associated with Alzheimer’s need to know? How are researchers and doctors better understanding risk factors and diagnoses? What policy actions can prioritize research, detection and treatment? And what are the access considerations for patients and their caregivers as they navigate this difficult symptom?

LOCATION

National Press Club Holeman Lounge, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045

Yup, that's me, in front of the famous Oscar Mayer Weiner Mobile parked at a hotel in downtown Denver. Two of my favorite things in life are photography and hot dogs! Please don't make me prioritize!

Stripped down, the "Black Dogs" prioritize speed and firepower over armour protection.

View On Black

 

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Please help me build up this site so I can sell more pictures.

 

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HOME UPDATE

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Thank you all for your financial aid, gift of love, for buying my art and for your prayers and support during these difficult times.

 

May God bless you all.

 

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Trains are piling up at Darling as the Dispatcher is prioritizing the hotter Z trains. Here in the shot, the foreground train is slowing for red signals at the next control point being West Darling. In the distance a long Stack can be seen going away and the first of many Z's is on it's way up as well out neat Angell.

 

BNSF 7585 West, Q LACAUG6 29L.