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I'm outta here for a while. I'll check in when I can, but I doubt it will be often.
Try to stay out of trouble, PACpeeps.
Miss me!
Shrouded in silence
Daphna Baram
November 8, 2006 11:54 AM
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Last night, 18 people were killed in the Israeli bombing on Beit Hanoun, most of them women and children. The town in north Gaza has been swamped with blood for more than 10 days now, but this was the highest death toll for one night so far. The Israeli government seems to want to ensure that every child to survive the blitz on Beit Hanoun will want to be a suicide bomber when he or she grows up. It also seems to want to ensure that not that many children in Beit Hanoun will ever grow up.
If anybody thinks Israel's new bloody policies contradict Ariel Sharon's vision, shared by Ehud Olmert, of disengagement, then it is time to think again. The promise to the Israeli voters, attached to the withdrawal from Gaza, was always that after withdrawal we could "hit them hard" without jeopardising the settlers or our soldiers. So here we go. Just like southern Lebanon, which for years was the place for Israel to take vengeance for its frustration, Gaza is now seen by Israel as fair game.
The protest in Israel over the butchery in Gaza is still limited to the "far left". Labour party ministers, who stomached the admission of fascist leader Avigdor Lieberman into their cabinet, do not only back the blitz, they run it. The minister of defence, Amir Peretz, Labour's leader, is in charge of this gory operation too, as well as of the recent bloodbath in Lebanon. He is closely supported by another Labour minister, Yuli Tamir, who when travelling to the UK still thought she could rely on her past as a Peace Now activist 30 years ago, and Shelly Yehimovitch, a popular journalist turned politician, who also fancies herself to be a saintly peacemonger. The blood of all those people, all those children, are on their hands, and it will not wash off.
As always in such cases, the Israeli Defence Army claims there was a mistake. Their shelling of the residential compound was "deflected by 500m" and hit the wrong place. If only seven, rather than 18 civilians were killed, they wouldn't have even bothered saying that. There must be some secret guidelines for governments by which they decide when to claim a "mistake" and when to go for the bravado of blaming the victims. After all, those children, by sleeping in their own beds, were used as living protection for "terrorists". Well, not any more. They are dead.
There's a legal principle in the criminal law that says one can be held responsible for the natural consequences of one's actions. This is why if you hold a gun to someone's head and pull the trigger you cannot argue in court that you did not actually intend to kill them. The very same goes for bombing a civilian town, let alone one as densely populated as Beit Hanoun. The growing gaps between newspeak about "surgical precision" and "targeted elimination" and the nature of the means used to carry it out always ends up with arenas of carnage like the one we see in Beit Hanoun today.
The world, as the US and UK like to refer to themselves - and as Israel also likes to call them - will do little, this time, as in previous cases. The children of Beit Hanoun will not be saved by George Bush and Tony Blair. After all, the photos are all too similar to what we saw not long ago from Baghdad, where minor "accidents" like last night's surgical operation in Gaza prevailed. The so called "war on terror", like all major international conflicts before it, inspires local conflict, and US and UK practices send a clear message to Israel's leaders that it is all actually all right.
In his moving poem about the Jewish children who died in the Holocaust, the Israeli unofficial poet laureate Nathan Altherman wrote that murderers would ask for children's blood, and so would those who kept quiet. This should be true for all children. Do not keep quiet.
Collage by Night Heron. Includes scanned photo by Abid Katib - Getty Images.
Israeli Shell Kills 18 in Gaza"
How Israel put Gaza civilians in firing line: Military chiefs were warned that change of safety margin for gunners risked killing the innocent
Remember the dolls we saw at the toy fair? Yeah they exist there's just a better version, I think these are for underwater play and the others are like the other winx dolls by jakks except they have hard plastic wings
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine BĂ©lier and Michele Rivasi.
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This memorial stone tablet was erected in honor of the German Nobel Prize winner bacteriologist, Dr. Robert Koch.
Kupelwieser, the owner of the islands, intended to turn the island from a malaria ridden island with some stone quarries into fashionable holiday resort on the turn of the 19th century. An exceptionally important task for Paul Kupelwieser was to exterminate malaria from the islands. Having read in the newspaper that Dr. Koch intended to carry out research on malaria in Italy, Kupelwieser wrote him a letter with his observations about the disease. Shortly after, Koch sent his collaborators and he himself visited the islands twice in 1900/1901. He discovered that that the cause of malaria was the anopheles mosquito with multi-colored wings. The mosquito had a pleasant breeding area on the island as the main island was covered with swampy areas. Koch's efforts concentrated on drying up the swamps, thus eradicating the breeding ground for the carrier of malaria.
A monument in his honor was erected in one of the quarries in 1908.
The inscription is in German and it says:
"Dem grossen Forscher
Dem Befreier der Insel
von der Malaria
Dr. Robert Koch annis 1900-1901"
(To the great scientist/researcher, who freed the island from malaria - Dr. Robert Koch, 1900-1901)
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine BĂ©lier and Michele Rivasi.
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Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine BĂ©lier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
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Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine BĂ©lier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
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Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine BĂ©lier and Michele Rivasi.
Find out more at www.stopclimatechange.net/
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In America: Remember WHITE FLAGS art exhibition honoring each person who has died from COVID-19 near George Washington Monument Grounds on the National Mall off 15th and Street, NW, Washington DC on Friday afternoon, 1 October 2021 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Visit IN AMERICA: REMEMBER / WHITE FLAGS / COVID-19 Deaths Memorial Art Exhibition website at www.inamericaflags.org/
Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg at suzannefirstenberg.com/
Elvert Barnes PUBLIC ART 2021 at elvertxbarnes.com/2021-public-art
Elvert Barnes COVID 19 Pandemic October 2021 docu-project at elvertxbarnes.com/covid-19-project
Elvert Barnes October 2021 at elvertxbarnes.com/october-2021
Awesome song about The Alamo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxYv8HTruo&feature=related
Bejar Fby. 24th 1836
To the People of Texas &
all Americans in the world------
Fellow citizens & compatriots------
I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under
Santa Anna ----- I have sustained a continual Bombardment &
cannonade for 24 hours & have not lost a man ----- The enemy
has demanded a Surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison
are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken ----- I have answered
the demand with a cannon shot, & our flag still waves proudly from
the wall ----- I shall never Surrender or retreat.
Then, I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & every thing
dear to the American character, to come to our aid,
(Second Page)
with an dispatch ----- The enemy is receiving reinforcements daily &
will no doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or five days.
If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long
as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to
his own honor & that of his country ----- Victory or Death
William Barret Travis
Lt. Col. Comdt
P. S. The lord is on our side- When the enemy appeared in sight
we had not three bushels of corn--- We have since found in deserted
houses 80 or 90 bushels & got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves---
Travis
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Back when I lived in Mountain View I was deeply saddened to read of the death of Gwen Araujo in 2002. She was a transgendered teen in the South Bay who was brutally murdered by classmates. Why? She had given a few blowjobs to the boys. The boys realized in horror that they had committed a "homosexual" act. They felt betrayed by Gwen, beat her to death, and buried her in the woods.
The tragedy bothered me because Gwen was apparently accepted by these friends enough to become somewhat intimate, but the homophobia that had been instilled in these kids was so strong that they went from lust to the worst sort of violence.
For me, "Gwen Araujo" is as a reminder that homophobia is a deadly poison that can turn even a lover into a brutal murderer. Gays aren't murdering people: it is homophobia that is the dangerous sickness. The younger generations have proven increasingly tolerant, but Gwen's friends were still held under its deadly influence . . .
I dream of a world in which people can be who they are as they are without fear of violence.
Remember Fukushima
On the third anniversary of the tragic events following the tsunami and the resulting nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Greens/EFA MEPs carried out a symbolic action to remember the disaster and its victims at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
This followed a press conference with Naoto Matsumura, the last man living in the forbidden zone of Fukushima, hosted by green MEPs Sandrine BĂ©lier and Michele Rivasi.
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I remember taking photos of these Sherpas 'under protest', but under the assumption that one day - as they were part of the passing scene - they would be of interest to someone.
Like them or not however, they helped to get the company through a difficult trading period in-tact, so they did manage to achieve something of note!
66 was one of 29 Sherpas acquired from Ribble in June 1988, some two years after the initial success of the 10 Mercedes L608D-based minis that were based solely in Lincoln. The Sherpas however saw service at all depots, with the possible exception of Gainsborough.
Lincoln High Street, 20th May 1991.
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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence?
How the dear object from the crime remove,
Or how distinguish penitence from love?
Unequal task! a passion to resign,
For hearts so touch'd, so pierc'd, so lost as mine.
Ere such a soul regains its peaceful state,
How often must it love, how often hate!
How often hope, despair, resent, regret,
Conceal, disdain — do all things but forget.
But let Heav'n seize it, all at once 'tis fir'd;
Not touch'd, but rapt; not waken'd, but inspir'd!
Oh come! oh teach me nature to subdue,
Renounce my love, my life, myself — and you.
Fill my fond heart with God alone, for he
Alone can rival, can succeed to thee.
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;
Eloisa to Abelard (1717), Alexander Pope
At a formative stage in my career, I was seconded to Transit Holdings' new Docklands Minibus operation. Here, we see Ford Transit 257 (E197 BDV) decorated for a new service launch whilst colleagues erect a bus stop flag.
You can't do justice for the sacrifice so many people made during the 1st World War. People who really didn't have an option but to fight in a pointless war that could have been avoided. But it's important you make an effort to remember them. And this effort is simple, considerate and honours every British and colonial soldier who died.
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Some background:
In the grand scope of World War 2 fighter aircraft there is a little-remembered French design designated the Arsenal "VG-33". The aircraft was born from a rather lengthy line of prototype developments put forth by the company in the years leading up to World War 2 and the VG-33 and its derivatives represented the culmination of this work before the German invasion rendered all further work moot.
The Arsenal de l'Aeronautique company was formed by the French government in 1936 ahead of World War 2. It began operations with dedicated design and development of a fast fighter type until the German conquer of France in 1940 after which the company then focused on engine production after 1945. Then followed a period of design and construction of gliders and missiles before being privatized in 1952 (as SFECMAS). The company then fell under the SNCAN brand label and became "Nord Aviation" in 1955.
The VG-33 was the result of the company's research. Work on a new fast fighter began by Arsenal engineers in 1936 and the line began with the original VG-30 prototype achieving first flight on October 1st, 1938. Named for engineer Vernisse (V) and designer Jean Gaultier (G), the VG-30 showcased a sound design with good performance and speed during the tests, certainly suitable for progression as a military fighter and with future potential.
Development continued into what became the VG-31 which incorporated smaller wings. The VG-32 then followed which returned to the full-sized wings and installed the American Allison V-1710-C15 inline supercharged engine of 1,054 horsepower. The VG-32 then formed the basis of the VG-33 which reverted to a Hispano-Suiza 12Y-31 engine and first flight was in early 1939, months ahead of the German invasion of Poland. Flight testing then spanned into August and serial production of this model was ordered.
The VG-33 was one of the more impressive prewar fighter ventures by the French that included the Dewoitine D.520, understood to be on par with the lead German fighter aircraft of the period - the famous Messerschmitt Bf 109.
Only about forty or so French Arsenal VG-33 fighters were completed before the Fall of France in 1940, with 160 more on order and in different states of completion. Despite the production contract, Arsenal' engineers continued work on the basic design for improved and specialized sub-types. The VG-34 appeared in early 1940 outfitted with the Hispano-Suiza 12Y-45 engine of 935 horsepower, which improved performance at altitude. An uprated engine was installed in VG-35 and VG-36, too. They utilized a Hispano-Suiza 12Y-51 engine of 1,000 horsepower with a revised undercarriage and radiator system.
VG-37 was a long-range version that was not furthered beyond the drawing board, but the VG-38 with a Hispano-Suiza 12Y-77 engine that featured two exhaust turbochargers for improved performance at high altitude, achived pre-production status with a series of about 10 aircraft. These were transferred to GC 1/3 for field trials in early 1940 and actively used in the defence against the German invasion.
The VG-39 ended the line as the last viable prototype model with its drive emerging from a Hispano-Suiza 12Z engine of 1,280 horsepower. A new three-machine-gun wing was installed for a formidable six-gun armament array. This model was also ordered into production as the VG-39bis and was to carry a 1,600 horsepower Hispano-Suiza 12Z-17 engine into service. However, the German invasion eliminated any further progress, and eventually any work on the Arsenal VG fighter family was abandoned, even though more designs were planned, e .g. the VG-40, which mounted a Rolls-Royce Merlin III, and the VG-50, featuring the newer Allison V-1710-39. Neither was built.
Anyway, the finalized VG-38 was an all-modern looking fighter design with elegant lines and a streamlined appearance. Its power came from an inline engine fitted to the front of the fuselage and headed by a large propeller spinner at the center of a three-bladed unit. The cockpit was held over midships with the fuselage tapering to become the tail unit.
The tail featured a rounded vertical tail fin and low-set horizontal planes in a traditional arrangement - all surfaces enlarged for improved high altitude performance.
The monoplane wing assemblies were at the center of the design in the usual way. The pilot's field of view was hampered by the long nose ahead, the wings below and the raised fuselage spine aft, even though the pilot sat under a largely unobstructed canopy utilizing light framing. The canopy opened to starboard.
A large air scoop for the radiator and air intercooler was mounted under the fuselage. As an unusual feature its outlet was located in a dorsal position, behind the cockpit. The undercarriage was of the typical tail-dragger arrangement of the period, retracting inwards. The tail wheel was retractable, too.
Construction was largely of wood which led to a very lightweight design that aided performance and the manufacture process. Unlike other fighters of the 1930s, the VG-38 was well-armed with a 20mm Hispano-Suiza cannon, firing through the propeller hub, complemented by 4 x 7.5mm MAC 1934 series machine guns in the wings, just like the VG-33.
The aircraft never saw combat action in the Battle of France. Its arrival was simply too late to have any effect on the outcome of the German plans. Therefore, with limited production and very limited combat service during the defence of Paris in May 1940, it largely fell into the pages of history with all completed models lost.
Specifications:
Crew: 1
Length: 28.05 ft (8.55 m)
Width: 35.43 ft (10.80 m)
Height: 10.83ft (3.30 m)
Weight: Empty 4,519 lb (2,050 kg), MTOW 5,853 lb (2,655 kg)
Maximum Speed: 398 mph (641 kmh at 10.000m)
Maximum Range: 746 miles (1,200 km)
Service Ceiling: 39,305 ft (12.000 m; 7.458 miles)
Powerplant:
1x Hispano-Suiza 12Y-77 V-12 liquid-cooled inline piston engine
with two Brown-Boveri exhaust turbochargers, developing 1,100 hp (820 kW).
Armament:
1x 20mm Hispano-Suiza HS.404 cannon, firing through the propeller hub
4x 7.5mm MAC 1934 machine guns in the outer wings
The kit and its assembly:
I found the VG-33 fascinating - an obscure and sleek fighter with lots of potential that suffered mainly from bad timing. There are actually VG-33 kits from Azur and Pegasus, but how much more fun is it to create your own interpretation of the historic events, esp. as a submission to a Battle of Britain Group Build at whatifmodelers.com?
I had this project on the whif agenda for a long time, and kept my eyes open for potential models. One day I encountered Amodel's Su-1 and Su-3 kits and was stunned by this aircraft's overall similarity to the VG-33. When I found the real VG-38 description I decided to convert the Su-3 into this elusive French fighter!
The Su-3 was built mainly OOB, it is a nice kit with much detail, even though it needs some work as a short run offering. I kept the odd radiator installation of the Suchoj aircraft, but changed the landing gear from a P-40 style design (retracting backwards and rotating 90°) into a conservative, inward retracting system. I even found forked gear struts in the spares box, from a Fiat G.50. The covers come from a Hawker Hurricane, and the wells were cut out from this pattern, while the rest of the old wells was filled with putty.
Further mods include the cleaned cowling (the Su-3's fuselage-mounted machine guns had to go), while machine guns in the wings were added. The flaps were lowered, too, and the small cockpit canopy cut in two pieces in, for an opened position - a shame you can hardly see anything from the neat interior. Two large antenna masts complete the French style.
Painting and markings:
Again, a rather conservative choice: typical French Air Force colors, in Khaki/Dark Brown/Blue Gray with light blue-gray undersides.
One very inspiring fact about the French tricolor-paint scheme is that no aircraft looked like the other – except for a few types, every aircraft had an individual scheme with more or less complexity or even artistic approach. Even the colors were only vaguely unified: Field mixes were common, as well as mods with other colors that were mixed into the basic three tones!
I settled for a scheme I found on a 1940 Curtiss 75, with clearly defined edges between the paint fields. Anything goes! I used French Khaki, Dark Blue Grey and Light Blue Grey (for the undersides) from Modelmaster's Authentic Enamels range, and Humbrol 170 (Brown Bess) for the Chestnut Brown. Interior surfaces were painted in dark grey (Humbrol 32) while the landing gear well parts of the wings were painted in Aluminum Dope (Humbrol 56).
The decals mainly come from a Hobby Boss Dewoitine D.520, but also from a PrintScale aftermarket sheet and the scrap box.
The kit was slightly weathered with a black ink wash and some dry-painting, more for a dramatic effect than simulating wear and tear, since any aircraft from the VG-33 family would only have had a very short service career.
Well, a travesty whif - and who would expect an obscure Soviet experimental fighter to perform as a lookalike for an even more obscure French experimental fighter? IMHO, it works pretty fine - conservative sould might fair over the spinal radiator outlet and open the dorsal installation, overall both aircraft are very similar in shape, size and layout. :D
Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
Remember the little girl from a while back? Who was so shy that she hid behind my brick-like iPhone 3Gs just to avoid my camera?
Well, I present to you her younger brother, the one that doesn't really care what goes on around so long he has an iPhone to play with. Did I mention he's also the one who took off his diapers and pants when denied an iPhone. It's pretty funny actually to see him butt naked on the floor sulking.
Same place, same phone(s), same parents but yet just genetically different enough to create a stark contrast in behaviors.
The wonders of the human mind.
Taken with iPhone 4 and edited using infinicam and proHDR.